Installing Thermo Scientific Devices
Vanquish Charged Aerosol Detector: Installation

 

Device Type:

Charged Aerosol detector

Device Driver:

Thermo Scientific HPLC: Vanquish Charged Aerosol Detector

Hardware Options
Supported:

  • VH-D20-A

  • VF-D20-A

For information about the available configurations, refer to the operating instructions for the instrument.

Options
Supported:

  • analog data acquisition

  • digital data acquisition

  • SmartStartup / SmartShutdown

  • Chromeleon 6 tabset panels / panel selection

Restrictions:

The following options are not supported:

  • sharing of devices between timebases

  • assigning devices to timebases

  • diagnostics / troubleshooting timebases

 

What is required?

License:

Timebase Class 1

Server License

Connection:

A free USB 2.0 port and the following cable is required:

  • USB 2.0 cable to connect the detector to the server PC via the USB port

Use the system interlink cable:

  • to allow power on / off control from the Vanquish system base

  • to allow device communication and synchronization between the autosampler and the detector

Hardware Requirements:

  • Standard USB cable (part no. 6911.0002)

  • Standard USB 2.0 port is required

The Vanquish Charged Aerosol Detector is supported on the following operating systems:

  • Windows 7 (64 bit)

  • Windows 7 (32 bit)

  • Windows Vista (32 bit) SP2+

  • Windows Server 2008 R2 (64 bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 (64 bit)

  • Windows Server 2008 (32 bit)

Software Requirements:

  • DDK (version 1.8 or later)

  • .NET framework (version 4.0 or later)

 

Hardware Installation

Device Connection:

Connect the device to the USB port on the Chromeleon server PC. Thermo Fisher Scientific recommends the following approach:

  1. Connect all devices to the detector.

  2. Connect the system to the Chromeleon computer via one connection only.

 Note:

Thermo Fisher Scientific recommends using the USB ports for connections to Thermo Scientific / Dionex instruments only. Thermo Fisher Scientific cannot guarantee correct functioning if instruments from other manufacturers are connected.

For more information about how to connect the system devices, refer to the instrument's operating manuals.

Also refer to Connecting Dionex Devices via USB.

 

Software Installation

  1. In the Chromeleon Server Configuration, add the driver to a timebase. For details, see Adding, Configuring or Deleting Devices. After you add the driver, the configuration dialog opens automatically.

  2. On each properties tab page, select the desired settings. For information about the settings on a page, click the Help button on a page or press F1.

Further Information

For detailed installation instructions, refer to the operating manuals of the instrument.

For troubleshooting information, refer to Troubleshooting for USB and TCP/IP Connections.

For an overview of the various Thermo Scientific devices, refer to  Installing Thermo Scientific Devices.