34 Agilent Cary 8454 UV-Visible Spectroscopy System Installation Guide
2 Installation and Start Up
Starting the Agilent ChemStation Software
Starting the Agilent ChemStation Software
If the Agilent UV-Visible ChemStations icon is not visible on the Windows
Desktop, open the Start menu and select Agilent UV-Visible ChemStations
from the list of programs. A maximum of two sessions of an instrument
can be started in parallel; the online session must be always the first
launched session.
Two instrument icons are displayed for the Agilent UV-Visible
ChemStations:
• Instrument Online starts the software in online mode (online means
Agilent ChemStation is connecting to the configured
spectrophotometer).
• Instrument Offline starts the software in offline mode (offline means
Agilent ChemStation is not connecting to the configured
spectrophotometer).
To start the software, click the Instrument Online or Instrument Offline
icon in the Agilent ChemStations section.
Operational Checkout
Operational checkout is used to determine if the instrument is in proper
operating condition in combination with your UV-Visible operating
software.
1 Be sure to verify the successful completion of the turn- on self test of
the spectrophotometer, that is, the indicator light on the front panel of
the spectrophotometer is lit and is green.
2 In your UV-Visible operating software, take a blank measurement and
observe the baseline noise. With an empty sample area, this should be
in the low mAU range. Excessive noise or spikes may indicate a
problem.
3 For the spectrophotometer an additional (optional) qualification can be
automatically performed using your software. After warm- up of the
spectrophotometer for one hour, the instrument is ready for the
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