How to use Optic3 with Pegasus III and agilent 6890N

[walshbig]

I have Leco Pegasus III with 6890N GC, Combi PAL, Atas Optic3 and DTD head. I have installed them and all working ok separately but don't have any experience with integrating them together. Optic3 can be configured as master or slave. I don't know which one should I choose. Also I don't know which setting should be altered in GC and MS methods in Chromatof in order for them to communicate with Optic3?

Let says I define a task in Chromatof to have only MS and GC methods (rest of the method fields are empty). After pressing pause and starting acquisition, Chromatof will wait for "run start" signal from GC. I guess I should setup up the GC in a way that to wait for Optic3 (means Optic3 should be setup in slave mode right?). Optic3 in turn should wait for Combi PAL to finish injection. Now how should I integrate DTD?

[Don_Hilton]

If you can control any part of the OPTIC throughthe GC front pannel, you have a chance at ChromTOF talking to the GC and setting parameters. Otherwise, have the OPTIC talk to the GC and the CTS rail. CHromaTOF should still be able to look for a ready signal from the GC and autosampler, give an start signal to the autosampler, and pick off the start signal fed from the autosampler or OPTIC to the GC.