GE Monitor UV-900, User Manual

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Operation
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Monitor UV-900 User Manual 18-1120-05 Edition AF
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3.10 Filtering noise
To filter the noise in the UV-signal, a moving average filter is used. The
averaging time is the time interval used for calculating the moving average of
the absorbance signal. A long averaging time will smooth out noise efficiently,
but it will also distort the peaks. Peaks narrower than the minimum peak width
value may be distorted. Because of this the averaging time should be as short
as possible, see the table below. On delivery the averaging time is set to 2.56 s.
1 Select menu
Set Averaging Time
, press
OK
.
2 Set the value, press OK . Use the fixed values between 5.12 and 0.08 s.
When monitoring more than one wavelength, the recommended
averaging time is a minimum of 1.28 s.
In UNICORN the averaging time is set with the instruction AveragingTime
in
S
ystem Control:Manual:Alarm&Mon .
Set Averaging Time
(2.56s) <2.56>
Averaging time (s) Time constant (s)
(approximate)
Min. peak width
at half height (s)
5.12 2.0 32
2.56 1.0 16
1.28 0.5 8.0
0.64 0.2 3.2
0.32 0.1 1.6
0.16 0.05 0.8
0.08 0.03 0.5