Agilent 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS Maintenance Guide 13
Basic Operation 1
Starting and Shutting Down
Starting and Shutting Down
This section describes how to start up your Q-TOF LC/MS and how to shut it
down.
The Q-TOF LC/MS instruments have three standard modes of operation that
you can select from the software.
On Mode On is the fully operational status of the system. The instrument and the source
are on. The Q-TOF icon indicates the state of the instrument:
To put an individual device in the On mode, right click the image of the device
in the Instrument Status window and click On. To put all devices in the On
mode, click the On button in the Instrument Status window.
Standby Mode In Standby, the source interface is on, the drying gas remains heated, and
nebulizer flows are maintained. The source and ion optics voltages are turned
off, and the mass spectrometer is not sending spectra to the computer.
However, the Q-TOF high voltage electronics are on.
For APCI and MMI sources, the vaporizer gas heaters are turned down.
For an instrument with Agilent Jet Stream inlet assembly, the sheath gas
temperature, drying gas flow, and drying gas temperatures are reduced.
Table 1 Q-TOF icon color indication
Color State
green idle
blue running, injecting
red error
yellow not ready
purple pre-run, post-run
dark gray offline
light gray standby
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