Agilent Technologies 8453 Operator's Manual page 38

2 Installation and Start Up
Starting a Measurement Session
Starting a Measurement Session
With a network connection to your spectrophotometer it is important that
your spectrophotometer is recognized by the software. This requires the
assignment of a unique IP address at power on time to your
spectrophotometer. The assignment is either done by the Agilent BootP
Service application running on your PC with a direct connection to the
spectrophotometer or in a LAN by a server application on your LAN.
Therefore it is important that either one of these applications is up and
running before you switch your spectrophotometer on.
It takes about 15 minutes for the lamps to reach stable state conditions. For best results, do
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not perform measurements before this period of time has elapsed.
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Switch on your PC and boot your PC operating system. If a printer is
connected to your system, switch the printer on.
Make sure that the Agilent BootP Service is running or you are logged onto
your LAN.
Switch your spectrophotometer on and wait until the spectrophotometer's
indicator light turns to green. This process includes the
spectrophotometer's self test and takes about one minute. For details on
the startup sequence see chapter "Installation and Start Up" in your
Installing Your UV-visible Spectroscopy System manual.
Launch your measurement session by pressing your operating system's
Start button and select Programs, UV-Visible ChemStations, Instrument 1
online.
You are ready to use your system, if the blue busy status display on the
system's bottom message line turns off.
The first measurement you have to perform is a reference measurement.
After this alignment your are ready to measure absorbance data and
spectra.
Agilent 8453 UV-visible Spectroscopy System Operator's Manual