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Preparation and operation
Before you prepare a 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module for operation, prepare the sample
manager and solvent manager.
Before running samples, you must prepare the 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module for operation.
To do so, you must perform these tasks:
• Install the 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module onto the system stack.
• Make the power and signal connections.
• Optionally, install the column-selection valve, and set the column-selection valve switch to the
proper position.
• Make the column-tubing connections, and install the columns.
• Configure the 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module using the sample manager's control panels or
the method editor in Empower software or MassLynx software.
2.1 Column compartment installation
If the 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module is not installed as part of the system stack, do as follows:
• Attach the standoffs to the system stack.
• Attach the adaptor bracket to the column compartment.
• Secure the column compartment to the system stack.
• Install the column compartment's drip tray and drain.
Warning:
To avoid a fault condition that can result in personal injury or death from
electric shock, do not disconnect or otherwise interrupt the continuity of an electrical
socket's protective grounding conductor or the power cord's grounding conductor.
Warning:
To avoid electric shock, do not remove protective panels from system
modules. The components within are not user-serviceable.
2.1.1 Attaching the standoffs to the system stack
To prepare the system stack for securing to the 30-cm CH or 30-cm CHC module, you must
attach the three standoff assemblies to the right-hand side of the sample-manager chassis and
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