Agilent Technologies Cary 8454 Installation Manual page 28

2 Installation and Start Up
Starting the Spectrophotometer
2 The fan will start turning.
3 The indicator at the upper left corner of the front panel will light in three
4 The turn on procedure, including electronic self tests, lasts about
5 When the green indicator at the upper left corner of the front panel comes
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different colors. The yellow color which means busy will stay on during the
start up and self test routines, until at least one of the lamps are ignited and
the spectrophotometer is ready to operate.
20 seconds before the lamps start turning on. Under cold ambient
conditions the lamp may not ignite and the instrument will repeat the
ignition cycle automatically. The entire turn-on and self-test process will
take about 1–2 minutes. Optical self tests are performed which last a few
seconds.
on, the instrument is ready to measure and you can turn on your computer
and printer.
If the software is set to leave both lamps off at turn on of the
spectrophotometer, the front panel indicator remains yellow.
If the indicator shows a red color, there is an error condition. Try turning
on the spectrophotometer again.
• red: error condition, that is, the spectrophotometer does not pass one of
the self-tests. In this case turn on your computer and start the UV-Visible
operating software. The software will give a detailed error message and
possible explanations are in the online help system. Additionally the
Operator's Manual gives information about troubleshooting.
• red, blinking: error condition of the spectrophotometer processor
system. Because in this case there is no communication with the
computer there will be no error message. The online help system and the
Operator's Manual gives more information about troubleshooting.
Agilent Cary 8454 UV-Visible Spectroscopy System Installation Guide