HANSATECH FMS1, Manual

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12 FMS 1 - Fluorescence Monitoring System
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also discussed in Section 2 .
2.2 Hardware
The FMS 1 is supplied with the following hardware components:
Control Unit:
Houses all of the electronics, optics and light sources. Power is provided from the
external 12V mains adapter unit.
Fibre-Optic Interface:
Connects the internal optics to the sample.
Leaf-Clips:
Dark-adaptation clips and fibre-optic adapters are used to hold leaf sample relative to
the fibre-optic. These permit rapid screening of multiple samples.
12V Mains Adapter:
Powers the FMS control unit.
These components must be correctly assembled before the system can be operated.
An optional PAR / Temp leaf-clip is also available for whole leaf measurement. This
features a co-sine corrected PAR sensor and thermocouple
2.2.1 Connections to the FMS Control Unit
2.2.1.1 Electrical Connections
The following electrical connections are made to the rear of the control unit.
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12 V mains power adapter plugs into the 12 V DC socket (E, Figure 1-3).
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Serial cable links the Serial I/O socket (A, Figure 1-3) to a COMM port on the PC.
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Optional control over external devices can be achieved by connection to the “User Interface”
socket (B, Figure 1-3) (Chapter 2).