2 Hardware Overview
Instrument Status Indicators in Acquisition
Agilent Triple Quadrupole LC/MS System User Guide 34
Instrument Status Indicators in Acquisition
In the MassHunter Data Acquisition program, the Instrument Status window
indicates the state of the instrument.
⯀
Gray
• Offline: The instrument is configured with the system and available to use,
but the workstation or client is not currently running. The amount of time
for an instrument to reach the Idle state depends on each instrument.
• Disconnected: The connection to the instrument has been closed.
⯀ Yellow - Unknown: The device is in an unknown run state.
⯀ Light Orange - Not Ready: The instrument is connected but is not ready to run
(due to not reaching the correct temperature or pressure required by the method,
for example).
⯀ Green - Idle: The instrument is on and ready to process samples.
⯀ Teal - Standby: The instrument is in a standby/sleep state. Put the instrument
in Standby mode when it is not in use or when changing the ion source. When the
instrument is in Standby mode:
• 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.
• For APCI and multimode sources: Vaporizer gas heaters are turned down.
• For the Agilent Jet Stream (AJS ESI) source: The sheath gas temperature,
drying gas flow, and drying gas temperature are reduced.
• The spray chamber high voltages are turned off.
• The mass spectrometer stops generating spectra.
⯀
Magenta - Pre-run/Injecting: The instrument is on and is preparing to start
acquisition.
⯀ Blue - Running, Post Run: The instrument is currently collecting data.
⯀ Orange - Tuning: The instrument is in the process of adjusting MS parameters.
⯀ Red - Instrument Error: The instrument has an error and cannot process
samples.
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