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Instrument Preparation 2
Real-time displays
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Real-time displays
Instrument Status Window
The Instrument Status window is also called the Dashboard.
You can see if a module is On, Off or in Standby by observing the
color of the bar in the title for each device pane. The title bar
also includes words describing the current state of each device.
The Instrument Status Bar appears at the bottom of the
Instrument Status window. You can see the overall state of the
Instrument in this Instrument Status Bar.
Figure 24 Instrument Status window
Table 3 Colors of Instrument States
Instrument State Color
On—Preparing/Not ready Yellow
On—Ready Green
On—Waiting, Pre-run or
post-run
Purple
On—Running, Injecting Blue
Standby Light Gray—To see if the pump, TOF or Q-TOF is
in Standby mode or off, you can also look for
the check mark in the shortcut menu.
Off Dark Gray
Error condition Red