Agilent Technologies 5110 ICP-OES Service Manual page 282

10 Installation Guide (5110 ICP-OES)
Wavelength calibration and Detector calibration
1 Start the ICP Expert software and open the Instrument by clicking "Instrument" on the Main
toolbar.
2 Click on the "Calibration" tab and click on "Calibrate" button under the "Detector" heading to
calibrate the electronic offsets.
3 Turn on the plasma by clicking on the Main toolbar or pressing Shift F5 on the keyboard.
4 Aspirate the wavelength calibration solution.
5 Check that the Polychromator Boost purge is on "Status Tab". To do this, click on the Main
toolbar to bring up the Instrument Setup window. Click the Status tab and check that under
the "Purges" listing Poly Boost is 'On'.
6 If the Poly boost purge is 'Off' tick the poly boost check box to activate the boost purge.
7 Leave the poly boost purging for at least 20 minutes prior to performing the wavelength
calibration.
8 Turn on the snout purge (Status tab under purges box).
9 On the Calibration tab click on "Calibrate" button under "Instrument" heading to calibrate
wavelength offsets.
After a short while, a message will appear stating that the wavelength calibration is completed,
NOTE
as well as indicating the wavelength calibration range. A cross will appear against any
wavelength that didn't calibrate correctly.
This operation stores the results of the wavelength calibration as a text file. These results will be
saved to a text file entitled "Calibrationdetaillog.txt" and "Calibrationsummarylog.txt" located in
the following directory:
C:\ProgramData\Agilent\ICPExpert\Log\Instrument serial number\Result.txt
If the calibration fails:
If the wavelength calibration failure is with the low UV wavelengths such as Al it's most likely
that more Poly purge time is required or the Poly boost is off and/or the snout purge is off. If the
failures are more wide spread, prepare a new wavelength calibration solution and try again, or
you can examine the Calibrationdetaillog.txt or Calibrationsummarylog.txt file and determine
which elements failed the calibration.
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