3-4 AEROTRAK™ Portable Airborne Particle Counter
Field Description
(Location)
Location describes where a sample is being taken.
This dropdown box displays information about
saved locations. The chosen location displayed on
the Main screen is the location associated with the
sample to be taken.
A recipe is the group of settings that are used for a
sample.
This dropdown box displays the saved recipes. The
chosen recipe displayed on the Main screen is the
recipe associated with the sample to be taken.
Time The time for each sample.
Delay/Hold Delay/Hold describes the time that the particle
counter is waiting before a sample starts, and in
between samples when multiple samples are taken.
It represents time that data is not being collected.
The Delay/Hold displays as follows:
1. Before the Start button is pressed, the (Start)
Delay time is displayed and then immediately
after the Start button is pressed the Delay time
begins a countdown.
2. Between data collection (after the Start Delay
has occurred), the Hold time is displayed and
then begins a countdown.
Volume The volume of air sampled for a given sample.
Sample The specific sample being taken out of the total
number of samples programmed to be taken.
Recs The total number of records in the database/10000
(maximum number of records).
Manual/Automatic/Beep Mode Indicator; refers to the “Data Count Mode”
(see section below).
Press the Start/Stop button to begin and end
sampling in the configured mode (Model 9306 only).
Press to print the current sample to the optional
printer.