Starting A Measurement Session - Agilent Technologies Cary 8454 Operator's Manual

3 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 to your spectrophotometer when it is
powered on. The assignment is done either by the Agilent BootP Service
application running on your PC with a direct connection to the
spectrophotometer, or 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
NOTE
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 Agilent
Cary 8454 UV-Visible Spectroscopy System Installation Guide.
Launch your measurement session by pressing Start > All Programs or All
Apps > 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 you are ready to measure absorbance data and spectra.
Agilent Cary 8454 UV-Visible Spectroscopy System Operator's Manual