ACQUIRING DATA
iKon-L SECTION 5
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When you acquire data, by reading out a scan or a series of scans of the CCD-chip at the heart of the
detector, the data are stored together in a Data Set, which exists in your computer’s Random Access Memory
(RAM) or on its Hard Disk. You can also create a data set via the Andor Basic programming language. #n
uniquely identifies the data set while the data set is being displayed and is temporary. It ceases to be
associated with the data set once you close all data windows bearing the same #n. It is often referred to as an
Acquisition Window. NOTE: Each data window has the same name and #n (which identify the Data
Set
If you have selected Accumulate or Kinetic as the Acquisition Mode, new data will continue to be acquired
and displayed until you carry out one of the following actions:
), but a unique number, following the Data Set Name, to identify the window itself. Data can be
modified only in a data window labeled with the name and the #n of the data set to which the data
belong. If you modify a data set and attempt to close the data window, you will be prompted to save
the data set to file.
• Select Abort Acquisition from the Acquisition drop-down menu.
• Click the
button
• Press the <ESC> key.
This stops any data capture process that may be under way.
Information on how to capture & view more detailed data is contained in the pages that follow.
If you click the button, the system repeatedly performs a single scan and updates the data display.
NOTE: This is a useful mode for focusing of your iKon-L CCD and for watching experimental events
happening in Real Time. However, this mode will not allow you to save any of the acquired images or
data, except for the last frame of the sequence, unless Spool to Disc is selected.
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