Optec IFW Intelligent Filter Wheel Control
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Programs in this directory offer command line control of an Optec filter wheel
written in C. They be spawned from xmccd1 or xpaccd for external filter wheel 
control.

See INSTALL for more information.


The Optec rotator or filter wheel will work with FTDI chip set USB to serial
converters.  It may not work with a Prolific chip set.  You may check which set
your converter has by using "lsusb".  It should return something like this:


Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, 
  Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC
  
for the chipset that is known to work.  Test the program using the command line
before relying on it for use through the user interface or xpa.
  
  

 
