User`s guide

Table of Contents
vi PerSeptive Biosystems
Chapter 4 Voyager Instrument Control Panel Basics
4.1 Instrument Control Panel .......................................................... 4-2
4.1.1 Parts of the Instrument Control Panel .................................... 4-2
4.1.2 Manual and Automatic Control Modes .................................... 4-6
4.1.3 Accessing Sequence Control Panel and Data Explorer .......... 4-7
4.2 Using the Control Pages
........................................................... 4-8
4.3 Using the Spectrum Window
..................................................... 4-10
4.3.1 Adjusting the Display Range .................................................4-10
4.3.2 Zooming on Traces ...............................................................4-13
4.3.3 Adding Traces to a Window ..................................................4-13
4.3.4 Annotating Traces .................................................................4-16
4.3.5 Previewing and Printing Traces .............................................4-18
4.4 Customizing the Instrument Control Panel
................................... 4-21
4.5 Controlling the Workstation
...................................................... 4-24
4.5.1 Using Toolbar Buttons and
Instrument Menu Commands ................................................4-24
4.5.2 Adjusting Laser Intensity and
Selecting Sample Position ....................................................4-27
4.6 Sequence Control Panel
.......................................................... 4-32
4.7 How the Instrument and Sequence Control Panels Interact
.............. 4-33
Chapter 5 Optimizing Instrument Settings
5.1 Loading, Modifying, and Saving Instrument Settings........................ 5-2
5.1.1 Using Instrument Settings (.BIC) Files ................................... 5-2
5.1.2 Standard Instrument Settings (.BIC) Files Provided ................ 5-3
5.1.3 Opening and Viewing Instrument Settings .............................. 5-7
5.1.4 Modifying an Instrument Settings File (.BIC) .......................... 5-8
5.1.5 Saving and Printing ................................Instrument Settings 5-11
5.1.6 Setting Instrument Settings Files to “Read-Only” Status ........5-13