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three crazy peaks

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:03 pm
by detjon
Hi everybody

Today I tried to run FID checkout sample on GC 5890 W/O EPC connected with Chemstation A.10.02 but I could get three crazy peaks
first one is big size,a second one medium size and a small one.I was getting repeatidily three peaks, I mean when first group of three peaks ended just after that started to come out second group
of three peaks and again the same three peaks.
It seems smth like chemstation option because even when I didn’t inject any sample but just pressed start on GC KEYPAD it was the same situation,
Before injection the baseline was zero,I think it must be smth above zero and below 20pAb , am I right??
The detector lit and it was ok, the only thing that was not ok was purge vent because on the method it must be 40ml/min and in fact it was smth like 250 ml/min

Have you had any similar issue like this??
i appreciate every thought.

detjon

Re: three crazy peaks

Posted: Mon May 21, 2012 3:33 pm
by KM-USA
Are you sure that you're not just seeing the Agilent "checkout" signal? It repeats like that.

Re: three crazy peaks

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 4:54 pm
by aldehyde
yeah you're looking at the test plot. change the signal to your detector (fid or whatever.)

Re: three crazy peaks

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 11:09 am
by detjon
hi mate

you were right,i had to selected the signal to Det.A so as to see online peaks,testplot is smth like internal test of GC.

thank you very much for your help

regards/detjon

Re: three crazy peaks

Posted: Sat May 26, 2012 1:48 am
by Don_Hilton
Nice thing about the test plot... the reproducability is wonderful ;-)