Spectral Products AD111, User Manual

Page 1: ...multiplier Amplifier USB 2 0 User Manual Ver 1 2 SPECTRAL PRODUCTS 2659 Pan American Fwy Suite A NE Albuquerque NM 87107 Ph 505 343 9700 Fax 505 343 9705 email sales spectralproducts com www spectralp...

Page 2: ...accuracy or usefulness of this material Failures or damages resulting from lack of operator attention to proper procedures failure to follow operating instructions unauthorized modifications and natur...

Page 3: ...are SetUp 6 2 4 1 Controller Box Connectors 6 2 4 2 USB Installation Pop up Windows 7 3 GETTING STARTED 8 3 1 Main Screen 8 3 2 Setup Screen 9 3 3 Menus 10 3 3 1 File Menu 10 3 3 2 Operate Menu 10 3 3...

Page 4: ...ation including wavelength and bandpass selection is controlled with a customer supplied PC The Digikrom monochromator uses one serial port and the AD111 uses one USB port An easy to use program is al...

Page 5: ...1 BNC Signal Cable 1 SMB High Voltage Cable 1 USB cable 1 Software CD 2 3 Installing Software Attention Software needs to be installed first before installing the hardware The supplied control program...

Page 6: ...ls the high voltage between 0 1000 Vdc J2 Power Connector Connects to the PUP30 32 switching power supply Figure 2 Front of Controller Box HV_Out A negative output voltage between 0 1000 Vdc that conn...

Page 7: ...lation 4 Found New Hardware Wizard Click Continue Anyway Click Finish To check the installation open the Windows Device Manager window The line AD111 SPECTRAL PRODUCTS USB 2 0 should appear under Univ...

Page 8: ...a display area with active buttons and a menu bar across the top This and other LabVIEW programs are referred to as Virtual Instruments VIs and the control display screen is called the front panel Fi...

Page 9: ...vel SW Trigger Internal triggering through the software Actual HV Should read close to the set value of HV Trigger Level sets the value for Level Trigger Selectable values between 0 50 correspond to 0...

Page 10: ...ith the minimum number of prompts Exit quits program 3 3 2 Operate Menu Print at Completion prints the contents of a VI s front panel after each execution Log at Completion logs a time stamp and the d...

Page 11: ...Novram Menu Nonvolatile memory in the monochromator is accessed by using read and write novram commands NovRead reads the memory values from Novram chip and displays the values NovWrite Use this comma...

Page 12: ...ate allows recalibration of the monochromator positioning scale factor A source of known wavelength is needed for recalibration The user must first execute a scan and note the displayed peak value Cal...

Page 13: ...ing identifier of the current grating Spectral Products 2659 Pan American Fwy Suite A NE Albuquerque NM 87107 Ph 505 343 9700 Fax 505 343 9705 13 o time delay sets the time in ms to wait before echo b...

Page 14: ...bout Information on LabVIEW software version number and serial number 3 3 8 3 4 LabView Toolbar The LabVIEW toolbar contains command buttons for running the VI Run runs the VI Run Continuously runs th...

Page 15: ...Screen 3 5 1 Graph Control Autoscale Dropdown Box may be used to select autoscaling for the Y axis BG Color controls the background color for plotting surface Grid Color Controls the grid color FWHM...

Page 16: ...lays a pop up menu to choose methods of zooming in or out on the graph Zoom by rectangle Zoom by rectangle with zooming restricted to x data the y scale remains unchanged Zoom by rectangle with zoomin...

Page 17: ...th the number of steps in the Steps Below 0 box Scan Scans the monochromator from the Start to the End wavelength with the increment in Step Gr mm displays the current grating ruling groove mm Grating...

Page 18: ...d to adjust the width of entrance and exit slit Raw Data displays the data collected in each pulse prior to averaging of Pulses sets the number of triggered pulses to be averaged of Samples pulse disp...

Page 19: ...Serial Bus controllers folder by clicking the plus sign and look for the AD111 driver with the name AD111 PMT SPECTRAL PRODUCTS USB 2 0 If you do not see the name unplug the USB power cables then plug...

Page 20: ...pe A Spectral Products supplies a USB 2 0 plug type A to plug type B cable for connecting to AT PS2 and MAC style computers Pin Assignments for the USB Connector at one end of AD111 controller Table 1...

Page 21: ...ppendix B Spectral Products 5 2 Appendix B AD111 Reference Drawings Figure 7 PC Board Layout Spectral Products 2659 Pan American Fwy Suite A NE Albuquerque NM 87107 Ph 505 343 9700 Fax 505 343 9705 21...

Page 22: ...Appendix B Spectral Products Figure 8 Block Diagram Spectral Products 2659 Pan American Fwy Suite A NE Albuquerque NM 87107 Ph 505 343 9700 Fax 505 343 9705 22 RC Constant...

Page 23: ...pplication None None spCloseEx void spCloseEx spSetHv Spectral Products 2659 Pan American Fwy Suite A NE Albuquerque NM 87107 Ph 505 343 9700 Fax 505 343 9705 23 short spSetHv short sHV sets the high...

Page 24: ...ber spReadDataEx short spReadDataEx long pArray Reads the data from USB port pArray points to a data address Its memory size should be one or bigger Zero A non zero number Zero A non zero number Reads...

Page 25: ...ata unsigned long 1Array int iNData This function reads data from the AD111 and is called right after the spPulseCmd function lArray points to a data address Its memory size should be one or bigger IN...