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.cap
Capture
Individually named spectra captured
manually
These files are the individually named spectra that are
“Captured” by the user at any given date or time during
operation. Each file can have up to 8 numerals in its
name which are entered at the time the “Capture” is
performed.
Example:
110307.cap
100008.cap
alarms
.his
Alarms History
A historical log of analyzer alarm events
Alarm History - in the form of ASCII data files that can
be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as simple .txt file
formats. The content can then be copied and pasted
into Microsoft Excel spread. Each Alarm incident is
logged with the date (MM-DD-YYYY) and time that it oc-
curred, the Mode (Warning or Fault or User Alarm), the
specific condition within the Mode (e.g. Detector Signal
Lost) and the state (ON or OFF).
Example:
10-10-2007 13:21:36 Fault(peak center out of range)
OFF
10-10-2007 19:00:25 Warning(detector signal low) ON
alarms
.bak
Alarms History Back-Up
A back-up of the historical log of ana-
lyzer alarm events
Alarm History Back-up - When the alarms.his file ex-
ceeds 100KB size the contents is saved to this .bak file
and the .his file is emptied. This .bak file is in the form
of ASCII data files that can be opened with Microsoft
“Notepad” as simple .txt file formats. The content can
then be copied and pasted into Microsoft Excel spread.
Each Alarm incident is logged with the date (MM-DD-
YYYY) and time that it occurred, the Mode (Warning or
Fault or User Alarm), the specific condition within the
Mode (e.g. Detector Signal Lost) and the state (ON or
OFF).
Example:
10-10-2007 13:21:36 Fault(peak center out of range)
OFF
10-10-2007 19:00:25 Warning(detector signal low) ON
calibr
.his
Calibration History
A historical log of analyzer calibrations
Calibration History - in the form of ASCII data files that
can be opened with Microsoft “Notepad” as simple .txt
file formats. The content can then be copied and pasted
into Microsoft Excel spread. Each Calibration and/or
Validation event is logged with the date (MM-DD-YYYY)
and time that it occurred, the Mode (Calibration or
Validation), the specific type (Transmission Calibration,
Zero Calibration, etc.) and the ‘K’ (constant) factor used
for the event
Example:
11-14-2007 14:11:19 span_calibrate 612814.89 9250.84
152665.88
11-14-2007 14:50:16 transmission_cal 14.95