Malvern Instruments Spraytec, User Manual

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/ Message bar
– shows status information, including warning messages.
This is part of the toolbar.
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Status bar – contains a number of icons displaying information about the
state of the system, as detailed below:
21 CFR – when coloured, this indicates that the software features providing
compliance with 21 CFR Part 11 are enabled.
10K – the instrument is the 10kHz version.
Spraytec – when coloured, this shows the computer is communicating
with the instrument.
The remainder of the Spraytec window is initially taken up by three result panes
containing views as described below. These windows can be cascaded or tiled if
required using options in the
Window menu. To change between the views that
a window can show, right-click on it and select from the displayed list.
1
Size History view – plots the values of derived variables for each record
against time. This is described in detail below.
2 Two record views – these provide any one of seven views summarising
the measurement. These are the Particle Size Distribution (PSD),
Derived Parameters , Measurement Parameters , Corrected Light
Scattering , Raw Light Scattering , Light Background and Dark
Background views. These views are described in detail in Chapter 6.
In the above example, the left-hand view shows a Particle Size Distribution
and the right-hand view Measurement Parameters.
The information given by the record views is for the single record selected
in the
Size History view. Each time a different record is selected in the
Size History view, these windows update their display to show data for that
record.
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