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Deciding which Data Analysis Mode to Configure
MS ChemStation
The G1701AA MS ChemStation, Rev. A.03.00 and later, includes four distinct Data
Analysis packages, called Data Analysis Modes. (Later versions contain additional
modes.) When an instrument is configured, one of these modes must be chosen for
that instrument. Below is a brief description of the four modes to aid in selecting which
is correct for your application.
1. Enhanced mode. Enhanced mode Data Analysis is the most commonly used
mode. This mode provides the functionality of the previous ChemStation data
analysis package and a number special-purpose tools that expand your data
processing / reporting options. It also contains various productivity tools such as
QEdit, DOSCAN, DOLIST, and EasyID. If you are not doing regulated
environmental analysis, or reformulated gasoline analysis, and you are not
already comfortable with the older Data Analysis package of the previous
ChemStations, this is the mode you should select.
Enhanced is the only mode supporting “mixed mode” data (GC and MS data
acquired simultaneously and stored and analyzed together.
2. Environmental Mode. Environmental mode Data Analysis, as the name
suggests, is intended for users in the regulated environmental market. This mode
includes tools and reports specific to the analysis of environmental samples. If
you are doing environmental testing and reporting, this is the mode you should
select. Environmental mode is very similar to the EnviroQuant package on
previous versions of the MS ChemStation.
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3. RFG Mode. This gasoline analysis software provides the specialized data
handling required by the ASTM method for determination of benzene, toluene,
and total aromatics in finished gasolines by gas chromatography/mass
spectrometry (ASTM D5769). Those of you doing this know who you are.
4. Standard Mode. (G1701AA and G1710BA only)Standard mode is the
comfortable Data Analysis environment that has been used on the DOS MS
ChemStation for some time. If you are a previous user of the G1034A/B/C
products (or the earlier versions of G1701AA), and are comfortable with that data
analysis program, this mode will allow you to use this ChemStation without
confronting the new features, capabilities, and menu organization of the
Enhanced mode. Familiar with the old ChemStation and don’t want to change?
This one’s for you.
5. Drug analysis mode. Provides specialized reporting formats for the drug testing
laboratory. Intelligent sequencing is implemented in G1701CA C.00.01 and later
versions.
If there’s still a question in your mind about which mode to choose, pick Enhanced and
proceed. You can always reconfigure the instrument and change modes later if you
want or need to.
G1701AA G1701BA G1701CA G1701DA
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