Bomem-GRAMS User's Guide

T ABLE OF CONTENTS
About this Manual............................................................................................................................................ ix
1. Quick Start................................................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Check the signal.............................................................................................................................. 1
1.2 Acquire a background spectrum ..................................................................................................... 5
1.3 Acquire a sample spectrum............................................................................................................. 6
2. Bomem-GRAMS........................................................................................................................................ 9
2.1 Description ..................................................................................................................................... 9
3. Software Installation ............................................................................................................................... 11
3.1 Software description ..................................................................................................................... 11
3.2 Computer requirements ................................................................................................................ 12
3.3 Software installation ..................................................................................................................... 12
4. The Collect Menu .................................................................................................................................... 15
4.1 Description ................................................................................................................................... 15
4.1.1
4.1.2
Setup............................................................................................................................... 15
Align............................................................................................................................... 22
4.1.3
4.1.4
Collect ............................................................................................................................ 24
Instrument Status and Control........................................................................................ 27
4.1.5 Halt Collect ....................................................................................................................29
4.1.5.1
4.1.5.2
Data acquisition initiated by the Align command ........................................ 29
Data acquisition initiated by the Collect command ...................................... 29
4.1.6 Help................................................................................................................................ 30
A Apodization Functions ............................................................................................................................ 31
A.1 Purpose ......................................................................................................................................... 31
A.2 Functions available in Bomem-GRAMS...................................................................................... 31
B Array Basic Interface .............................................................................................................................. 33
B.1 Array Basic methods .................................................................................................................... 33
B.2 Array Basic Properties.................................................................................................................. 38
B.3 Error codes.................................................................................................................................... 41
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