trying to connect an alltech 3300 ELSD to an Agilent HPLC...

[lynzjm]

does anyone know if this is possible and indeed how to do it?!

We have connected the Grace Alltech 3300 ELSD up via a dionex universal interface box which takes the pin plug from the ELSD and then connects via the USB port on the pc. The Agilent 1100 is connected to the pc with no issues.

We are using chemstation software which recognises the ELSD and the "box" pops up but it states "not ready" and "power failure". We're not sure if we need to configure the box or are missing a cable etc.

Any help would be greatly appreciated as we're at the head scratching stage - even the agilent technical support don't know how to do it...

Many thanks,
Lynz

[sepscientologist]

Hmmm. Yeah, I would suspect that it is not possible. Who sold you the Dionex interface? I have never
heard of someone connecting a non-Agilent detector to an Agilent stack other than through the Agilent
35900 A/D interface. I'm not saying it's not possible but I just think it is unlikely to work.

[lynzjm]

We spoke to the Grace people who supplied us the ELSD and they said it shold be possible, there should be no need for an additional driver etc. We've currently got a Speck & Burke engineer in looking at it trawling through the manual and hes quite stumped as well lol! He says it should be possible too and might bring us a 35900 box to try on friday to see if it will work (so we can buy our own etc) when his colleague comes back. Our brains are pickled playing about with software lol.

We have a 3300 driver for chemstation on the pc too already on it and it should work but its still not cooperating. Will report back if we get any further!

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[lynzjm]

Pleased to report we did it! Speck & Burke engineer managed to set up a new IP address on the ELSD panel to match one via the ELS1 signal on Chemstation and a LAN connection. Sooooo chuffed, wee geniuses!

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