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118 Agilent 6200 Series TOF and 6500 Series Q-TOF LC/MS System Concepts Guide

4 Data Acquisition

Data acquisition for samples and worklists

What you can monitor during a run

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The worklist shortcut menus contain an option called “Track

Worklist Run” that you can turn off or on. The default position

is on. With Track Worklist Run on, you can see what sample is

running at any time during the worklist run.

When you start a worklist run, the first sample row turns dark

blue, indicating that the sample in this row is running and data

is being acquired. When the data acquisition finishes, the first

sample row turns light blue to indicate that Data Analysis is

running.

If you have set Execution for Acquisition-DA to Asynchronous,

you will see both a dark blue and a light blue line to indicate

which lines are acquiring data and analyzing data.

Monitoring the Chromatogram Plot and Spectrum Plot windows

For more information on real-time

plots, see “Real-time displays” on

page 63.

You can also monitor the TIC or EIC chromatograms, LC

parameters and mass spectra for each sample during the

worklist run. You can print a plot of the real-time data by

clicking the File > Print > Real-time Plot Report command.