Remote Control Mode - Waters Alliance e2695 Operator's Manual

1.4.2.1 Input/output (I/O) signal connections for No Interaction mode
The following figure shows an example HPLC system configuration where the separations module
controls the HPLC components through I/O signal connections.
Figure 1–9: I/O signal control of an HPLC system
Detector
Analog data
In this type of system, you set up each HPLC component individually using its front panel. You
connect the components to the separations module using the I/O connector on its rear panel.
During a run, I/O signals from the separations module trigger synchronized or timed events in all
the HPLC components. The separations module does not process detector data. Detector results
and other system data go directly to a data acquisition system, integrator, or chart recorder. See
"I/O signal connections" on page 208
1.4.3

Remote Control mode

In remote control mode, the separations module and the other HPLC system components are
controlled by one of these data systems:
• Empower Chromatography Data Software
• Waters MassLynx Mass Spectrometry Software for mass spectrometers
• RS-232 communications by non-Waters data systems
• An external autosampler (the Waters 2700 Sample Manager, for example) with the
separations module in the Operate Gradient by Event In mode
Use the procedures in
1.4.3.1 Supported IEEE-488 and Ethernet configurations
In remote control mode, the separations module can participate in any one of these supported
IEEE-488 and Ethernet configurations:
• Where the separations module and detector(s) both communicate with the data system via
IEEE-488
• Where the separations module and detector(s) both communicate with the data system via
Ethernet
• Where the data system and separations module communicate via IEEE-488, and include
one or more detectors that can only communicate with the data system via Ethernet (that is,
a Waters 2998, 2489, 2475, 2424, e-SAT/IN module-connected, or Mass Spectrometer (for
example, 3100) Detector)
e2695
Separations
Module
I/O cables
Chart
recorder
for details on making I/O signal connections.
Chapter 5 to set up the separations module for remote control.
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