From Tim Hardy

[Tim Abbott]

Forwarded from Tim Hardy:

Has anyone successfully operated a CCD in a parallel flushing mode where the
serial gates are all held high while the parallel clocks are runnning instead
of periodically flushing out the serial register?  The theory is that the 
charge should all drain out to the output node, but I have been trying it
with a Tektronix TK512 and have had no luck - I always get overflow from 
the serial register into the imaging area.

Are there any tricks to it?

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 Tim Hardy
 Dominion Astrophysical Observatory           E-mail: hardy at dao.nrc.ca
 National Research Council Canada             Phone:  (250) 363-0015
 5071 W. Saanich Road                         FAX:    (250) 363-0045
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