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Installation
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2 Installation
2.1 On-board USB memory drive
The Qstick includes an USB memory drive. When you connect the Qstick to a PC, this
drive appears with a new drive letter in the Windows Explorer. It contains the drivers,
application software and a PDF file of this manual.
2.2 PC Setup
Please install the software by double-clicking on the WavesSetup.exe file on this drive.
The setup package then installs the application software and the device driver.
Afterwards you can start taking spectra with the application software Waves.
The software is tested with 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 8, 7, Vista and XP. It
requires at least the Microsoft .NET framework version 3.5, which is already installed on
most PCs. It also works with .NET framework version 4.0. If this framework is not installed,
you can download it from Microsoft’s website.
You can install the software on as many computers as you like. For example, you may
want to install it in the lab for measurements and in your office for further spectrum
analysis. Please visit our website for software updates.
The device driver for the Qstick spectrometer is not fully certified yet. If Windows displays
a warning, please choose to install the driver anyway. (You can be assured that is does
not contain any malicious software.)
The USB port needs to supply an electrical current of 200 mA, so you need to either
connect the spectrometer directly to your computer or to an externally powered USB
hub. A flashing red LED on the device indicated that the port does not supply enough
power.
When you start the Waves software, it automatically searches for the Qstick
spectrometers and, if it finds one, initializes the device. If you attached it just before, it
may take a few seconds before the spectrometer is properly recognized by the operating
system. The initialization takes a couple of seconds during which the software loads the
calibration data from the device.
If the software finds no or several spectrometers while starting, it displays a dialog
window from which you can choose a device or decide to use a ‘‘Simulated
spectrometer’’ instead. This simulated spectrometer can be used to evaluate the software
without connecting an actual device. You can access this dialog window later on by
choosing ‘‘Device Setup’’ from the File menu.