Hardware manual

3-6 Agilent 7500 Series ICP-MS Hardware Manual

3 Startup, Shutdown and Status

2 Click Yes.

The instrument will turn on the rotary pump, open the backing line valve

and turn on the turbo pump. The Instrument Control diagram displayed in

MassHunter Workstation (or ChemStation) will indicate that the rotary

pump is on. It can take from 15 minutes to 2 hours for the vacuum chamber

to attain its correct pressure of 5 x 10

-4

Pa. The instrument is now in

Standby mode, as displayed in the title bar. The process takes longer when

the vacuum chamber has been open to the atmosphere for any length of

time.

Figure 19 Instrument Control Window in Standby Mode