[gregbradley]

Well its only taken me about 2 years but I now know how to get FLI cameras and filter wheels to work in CCDsoft and Win 7 or Vista.

The camera is no problem, it was always the filter wheel.

I have the Software Bisque plug in for additional cameras of which FLI is one.

You run the FLI installer.

You will find your camera will work but the filter wheel will not connect in CCDsoft.

The problem is the file libfli.dll

Find the copy of this file in Programs(x86)/fingerlakesinstrumentation
Look around and you will find it. Note the date of it. Mine was 7 Oct 2010.

Copy it (right click it and copy).

Now go to windows/system32 and have a look. You will see another libfli.dll in the list of dll files. Note the date. It will be older like 2006. Delete it and copy the later date one.

Restart the computer and now your filter wheel will work.

Its a real lack of service from FLI that this is not done by the FLI installer and you have to search around the net to find this obscure and hard to find data. FLI works with Maxim and does not support CCDsoft despite the fact that a large number of imagers out there would be using CCDsoft.

Greg.