Flir / Indigo Systems breakout box and SIPO for Photon thermal camera

Description

Flir / Indigo Systems I/O Module and SIPO (serial to parallel LVDS adapter for digital video). These can be used separately or paired together. Please, read carefully: I/O Module can be used as breakout box for analog video, power and RS232 communication with PC/Flir GUI. For this purpose it will work with several Indigo core cameras - Omega (with proper cable, not included), Photon 320 or 160 (cable with 15 pin connector included), with Tau 1.5 320 (with Photon converter kit - not included), Tau 1.7 640 and Tau 2 (read further).  If you want to use it with SIPO for digital video - read Flir manuals for these cameras - particularly part about  LVDS digital video, pinout, etc. Shortly, Omega, Photon 160/320 and Tau 1.5 320 use one LVDS paired line for serial Data. Photon 640, Tau 1.7 640 and any Tau 2 use two lines for Data. I/O Module and SIPO are color coded. Gray I/O module has only one Data line connection - and therefore will not work (digital video) with Photon 640, Tau 1.7 640 and Tay 2.0. Also Photon 15pin connector and Photon conversion kits for Tau do not supply (on 15pin wearsaver connector) second serial Data line. Blue I/O Module would work - but I've never seen one. Blue SIPO is for 640 two Data models and backward compatible with one line cameras. If you need SIPO to get digital video from 640 models - you can skip I/O Module and try connect it directly to Photon 30 pin connector (or conversion board for Tau without wearsaver 15pin connector) with Samtec cable like SFSD-15-28-H-10.00-SR. I didn't try it yet.
I tested these with satisfactory results with Omega, Photon 320 and Tau 1.5 320 cameras and NI 1422 frame grabber (available for sale separately). With Tau 1.7 640 and Tau 2 336 it did not work properly - for reasons I explained above. Working with grabber software has its own challenges. Normally, grabbers capture software display 10/12/14 bit video from regular cameras without problem as long as you dial correct bit depth. It seems 14-bit thermal video is not that easy (to display) - if you look at histogram it only takes tiny portion of range. To display it properly there has to be function like "auto adjust dynamic range". I can't find it in NI MAX - and so, for 14-bit video the picture is dark gray. You could change Photon to 8-bit to make it easier. I captured gray 14bit picture and later developed it in ImageJ.
Included: power supply, RS232 straight-through male to female cable and camera to breakbox 3 feet cable, and I'll provide download link for SIPO ICD pdf (pinout, etc).