Chromatography Forum

Hello all,
I am new to your forum and have been reading a bit on the boards.
I am having some trouble even before a run begins and also during runs. There has been communication troubles between the instrument and computer during startup. Where I've had to restart the computer for 3-4 times to establish connections with all instruments. The problem is I am missing an i.p.-address to be able to ping one instrument.
So my question is:

How does one find the i.p. adress for an instrument? I am using Waters Acquity H-Class and a Waters W2465 electrochemical detector. I know how to find the i.p. address for everything but the W2465, how would I do this?

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

Are you sure your detector is connected to your computer by means of a network cable? If it's any other kind of cable it's perfectly normal that the detector doesn't have an ip-adrss.

Ha! You are completely right - I do not know much of computers and connections. But now I just learned something, thank you!
I just saw a cable running from the instrument to the computer and figured there should be an i.p. adress...
So, this was easy to solve

I guess this means I cannot see if this instrument gets connected or not?

Thank you

You could check the DHCP server (located somewhere under the Empower map) to find the IP address.

Ace

Thanks Ace,

I used it to find the i.p. addresses for the other instruments. The problem was that the W2465 is not there, because the detector is not connected with a network cable just like LivD pointed out.

I still don't know how to check if it's communicating with the computer, but I guess as long as I get results I don't have to worry