INFICON Explorer Portable Gas Chromatograph - Manual (Page 105)

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Follow the instructions below:
1. Make a copy of the assay disk, and store the original.
2. Create a new directory for your assay disk.
If you have more than one instrument, create a directory for each instrument.
Assay disks are specific to the instrument with the matching serial number.
3. Copy the contents of the assay disk into this directory.
Each assay you have ordered will be supplied on one 3.5” disk. Refer to the
assay notes for details of the files on the disk.
4. Connect Explorer to a serial port on the computer.
5. Turn on Explorer and allow it to warm up.
6. Start SiteChart.
7. Go to the Assay tab and open the assay.
Depending on which assay you are loading, you may be prompted, by Assay
Wizard, to configure your library with respect to co-eluting compounds. See
Assay Wizard on page 104.
8. Check the assay settings and then click on the Send to Explorer button.
If assays created on one instrument are downloaded to a second instrument an
error message will be displayed. You must update the library for the second
instrument as outlined in Updating Library Information on page 110.
Once the file has been downloaded, Explorer has been set up for your assay.
9. Calibrate Explorer.
NOTE: You must calibrate Explorer so that compound concentrations will be accurately
reported.