I am such a geek
Dec. 22nd, 2005 04:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lurkittyAnd I completely ROCK!
I have been working on getting one of my HPLCs to work with three pumps for quite some time. Several months have gone into this project because I have no manual for this pump (forget the web, I’ve tried),, nor do I have one for the UV detector.
I first got the system working with the two pumps I had manuals for and the detector. I had to bare-wire interface the cable into a bus on the on-board CIM on the A pump to get the UV detector to work by trial and error, since there was no other way. That took hours. The third pump, which was diferent than the other two, wouldn’t play nice with the others.
A call to the company that bought up the ramining stock when the mfg went out of business revealed that I needed an external CIM to dirve that pump. Swell. They dg one out and we bought it. Voila I could see the pump, but I oculdn’t work it. I got an error message saying the pump was incompatible. Looked like a pump firmware ssue to me. Several emails back an forth produced no joy. I tried and tried many different configurations – even installing an older than dirt version of the software. No joy.
I finally managed in a last ditch effort to get the tech serices guy on the line when I was in front of the machine. Even though I had typed in the error message OH so faithfully before, reading it to him now made him give a heavy sigh and say, “Oh, you need the firmware upgrade. I’ll send you one.”
Phew. And here I thought it was the firmware. So I got 2 lovely little Eproms today. I popped the top and installed them. *Joy*
I am such a geek girl. And did I mention I rock!
I have been working on getting one of my HPLCs to work with three pumps for quite some time. Several months have gone into this project because I have no manual for this pump (forget the web, I’ve tried),, nor do I have one for the UV detector.
I first got the system working with the two pumps I had manuals for and the detector. I had to bare-wire interface the cable into a bus on the on-board CIM on the A pump to get the UV detector to work by trial and error, since there was no other way. That took hours. The third pump, which was diferent than the other two, wouldn’t play nice with the others.
A call to the company that bought up the ramining stock when the mfg went out of business revealed that I needed an external CIM to dirve that pump. Swell. They dg one out and we bought it. Voila I could see the pump, but I oculdn’t work it. I got an error message saying the pump was incompatible. Looked like a pump firmware ssue to me. Several emails back an forth produced no joy. I tried and tried many different configurations – even installing an older than dirt version of the software. No joy.
I finally managed in a last ditch effort to get the tech serices guy on the line when I was in front of the machine. Even though I had typed in the error message OH so faithfully before, reading it to him now made him give a heavy sigh and say, “Oh, you need the firmware upgrade. I’ll send you one.”
Phew. And here I thought it was the firmware. So I got 2 lovely little Eproms today. I popped the top and installed them. *Joy*
I am such a geek girl. And did I mention I rock!
