Thermo Scientific APEX 100, User Manual

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Thermo Scientific APEX User’s Guide
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Glossary
In this glossary, any term in italics, refers to a technical term that is defined elsewhere
in the glossary.
Glossary
Term Definition
Alarm See WAF
Application There are four types of applications: conveyor,
gravity-feed, pipeline, and pharmaceutical. The term
describes how product is passed through the
detector’s search head.
Application-specific
parameter Parameters that must be set, when using a particular
application.
Auto-calibration A function that allows the detector to set the phase
angle, detect level, and AuditCheck settings using test
contaminants.
Back button The red button on the detector’s control panel.
CAL Calibrate. An abbreviation used in the detector’s
function menus.
CLX The clip-X filter, which reduces noise when wet-
products are being tested.
Control keys The four icons in the (software-driven) keyboard
screen that allow you to move the cursor left and
right, delete a character, and exit from the keyboard
screen.
Control Panel This comprises the navigation, Go, and Back buttons;
the indicator lights; and the display panel.
CPU Central processing unit
Detect level During the auto-calibration procedure, the detector
measures the level of background noise (the amount
of background signal in the search head) and
multiplies this by a factor of 2–3 to set the detect
level. Any signal (excessive noise/contamination) that
exceeds the detect level is tagged as contamination.
However, when the detect level is properly set,
metals—and only metals—will be tagged as
contamination.
DHCP Dynamic host-control protocol