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Shodex RI-101

3 Installation Procedure

3 Installation Procedure

3.1 Shodex RI-101 detector communication

The

Shodex RI-101

is controlled by serial (RS232) communication. It uses

a standard serial DB9F-DB9M straight cable (p/n SK02) described in the
picture below.

Fig 2: Serial DB9F-DB9M straight cable

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Summary of Contents for Shodex RI-101

Page 1: ...ontrols Shodex RI 101 DET ENG Code Rev M159 70A Date 27 8 2016 Phone 420 251 013 400 DataApex Ltd Fax 420 251 013 401 Petrzilkova 2583 13 clarity dataapex com 158 00 Prague 5 www dataapex com The Czech Republic ...

Page 2: ...demarks of DataApex Ltd Microsoft and WindowsTM are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation DataApex reserves the right to make changes to manuals without prior notice Updated manuals can be downloaded from www dataapex com Author DM ...

Page 3: ...allation Procedure 3 3 1 Shodex RI 101 detector communication 3 3 2 Clarity Configuration 4 4 Using the control module 6 4 1 Method Setup Acquisition 7 4 2 Method Setup Advanced 9 4 3 Hardware Configuration 10 4 4 Device Monitor 11 4 5 DataApex UNI Setup 12 5 Report Setup 13 6 Troubleshooting 14 i ...

Page 4: ... capitals indicates the name of the file and or directory ACTIVE capitalitalics marks the state of the station or its part The bold text is sometimes also used for important parts of the text and the name of the Clarity station Moreover some sections are written in format other than normal text These sections are formatted as follows Note Notifies the reader of relevant information Caution Warns t...

Page 5: ...le enables direct control of the instrument over serial line Fig 1 Shodex RI 101 detector Direct control means that the detector can be completely controlled from the Clarity environment The Instrument method controlling the analysis conditions will be saved in the measured chromatograms The control is performed via the UNI Ruby control module and the Shodex RI 101 script 1 ...

Page 6: ... the PC Note Modern computers usually have only one if any serial COM port installed To use more devices requiring the RS232 port the MultiCOM adapter p n MC01 is available l Serial DB9F DB9M straight cable p n SK02 Note Cables are not part of Clarity Control Module It is strongly recommended that you order the required cables together with the Control Module 2 ...

Page 7: ...ation Procedure 3 1 Shodex RI 101 detector communication The Shodex RI 101 is controlled by serial RS232 communication It uses a standard serial DB9F DB9M straight cable p n SK02 described in the picture below Fig 2 Serial DB9F DB9M straight cable 3 ...

Page 8: ...y station by clicking on the icon on the desktop l Invoke the System Configuration dialog accessible from the Clarity window using the System Configuration command l Press the Add button on Fig 3 on pg 4 to invoke the Available Control Modules dialog l You can specify the search filter to simplify the finding of the driver 4 ...

Page 9: ... the correct communication Port and click on the AutoDetect button to establish communication with the device l You may fill in the custom Device Name Note The DataApex UNI Setup dialog is described in detail in the chapter DataApex UNI Setup on pg 12 l The Shodex RI 101 item will appear in the Setup Control Modules list of the System Configuration dialog l Drag the appropriate item from the Setup...

Page 10: ...ntrol module After adding and setting up the detector a new Acquisition tab will appear in the Method Setup dialog A new Shodex RI 101 detector section enabling the monitoring of the current detector state will be also created in the Device Monitor window 6 ...

Page 11: ... detector is defined by Response Time parameter Valid values for the Shodex RI 101 detector range from 0 1 to 2 0 s Range for Integrator Output µRIU V Sets the output range for the Integrator Output analog output as well as digital signal sent to Clarity The available range is dependent on the Detector Model as set in the DataApex UNI Setup dialog Range for Recorder Output µRIU FS Sets the output ...

Page 12: ...dex RI 101 detector Equilibration Temperature Tolerance C Serves for the setting of the target temperature tolerance When the temperature reaches the desired value with the tolerance set here the detector gets to the READY state Autozero before Run Sets whether the detector should be autozeroed at the beginning of the analysis run From Det Loads the detector control parameters from the detector to...

Page 13: ...e usage of auxiliary signals of the Shodex RI 101 detector Fig 6 Method Setup Advanced The list of available auxiliary signals is shown in the table in the lower part of the dialog By checking the checkbox in the Store column for the particular row the given auxiliary signal will be stored into the measured chromatogram 9 ...

Page 14: ...Configuration The Hardware Configuration dialog invoked by using the Det Status button from the Method Setup Acquisition dialog displays the configuration of the Shodex RI 101 namely the communication type and its parameters Fig 7 Hardware Configuration 10 ...

Page 15: ...cted detector Valve Current Position Shows the state of the purge valve The valve position can be changed using the Purge Valve row Purge Valve Allows to set the purge valve on or off The current state of the Purge valve is visible in the Valve Current Position row Such action can only be performed outside of the analysis run Current Temperature C Shows the current temperature of the detector cell...

Page 16: ...ory accessible through the button of the Clarity installation folder C CLARITY BIN by default Port Defines the communication port used possible values dependent on the type of communication of the device and or available ports in the PC AutoDetect It is used for verifying the device communication over the serial port selected above Detector Name Allows you to set the custom name of the detector Th...

Page 17: ...rol checkbox on the Method tab of the Report Setup dialog Auxiliary signals setting made on Method Setup Advanced tab will be also printed Fig 10 Report Setup All of the parameters set in the Method Setup Acquisition dialog are reported as well as the custom Detector Name and other parameters set in the DataApex UNI Setup dialog 13 ...

Page 18: ...n should be edited or added COM1 echo on textmode on filename CommDrvCOM1_ D txt reset off Note Instead of COM1 type the communication port used to communicate with the Shodex RI 101 detector This port number is displayed when the Det Status button in the Method Setup Acquisition dialog is invoked Note D or d in the filename parameter means that the log will be created separately for each day The ...

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