User guide

Chelsea Technologies Group
FAST
tracka
User Guide HB179 Issue 7.0
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27
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Tue June 4 10:35:50 1997
Controller Battery Voltage = 14.88 V
Controller Current = 0.096 A
Electronics Temp = 22.95 Deg C
The header presents the basic instrument configuration either as programmed at the factory or
programmed by the user. These are organised as follows:
• Software version (factory set)
• FPGA configuration version (factory set)
• instrument serial number (factory set)
• Internal flashcard size in MB (autoset)
• status of AutoAcquire (user set)
• Date on internal clock (user set)
• Voltage on controller battery (autoread)
• Current consumption of instrument (autoread)
• Temperature of instrument internally (autoread)
Menu Options:
A. Set Date and Time: Use this menu to change the instrument’s clock. Enter in the
format of MM/DD/YY HH:MM:SS then press return.
B. Boot protocol slot number: This field allows the user to change the boot protocol
which is loaded into active protocol upon startup. Acceptable ranges are from 0-10.
Protocol slot 10 contains hard-coded safe values.
C. AutoAcquire: Enable autoacquire if you desire the FAST
tracka
to begin acquisition
upon wakeup. This parameter is automatically activated when the instrument is set to
acquire in programmed acquisition mode, immediately before it is set to sleep. As
well, the user must set this parameter to instruct the instrument to automatically
acquire data on wakeup by magnet switch.
D. REF Amplifier offset (counts)- This value is used to maximise the dynamic range of
the reference channel. It is preset at the factory around 128. It may range from 0-255
and corresponds to a voltage offset used by the instrument in establishing signal
background level. It should not be tampered with by the user.
E. PMT Amplifier offset (counts)- 120 This value is used to maximise the dynamic range
of the fluorescence channel. It is preset at the factory around 125. It may range from
0-255 and corresponds to a voltage offset used by the instrument in establishing
signal background level. It should not be tampered with by the user.
F. Reserved.
G. Reserved.
H. F0 analogue output maximum scale - This value sets the scale factor for normalising
the Fo value produced in the onboard reduction. The user chooses this to roughly
match the Fo values expected. The user should refer to the Analogue Output section
of this manual.
I. FM analogue output maximum scale - This value sets the scale factor for normalising
the Fo value produced in the onboard reduction. The user chooses this to roughly