Introduction
Spectrometry system ON
The green LED indicates that the control electronics and the high-voltage generator
are turned on.
ON
Alarm and Warning Display
The red LED indicates that a system alarm (red light) or a system warning (flashing
LED) is pending (see section 'Alarms and Warnings' in section 'System Control soft-
ALARM
ware).
Measurement is running/Measurement is pausing:
The yellow LED indicates that a measurement is being executed (yellow LED stays
on) or that the current measurement has been cancelled because a physical system
BUSY
component is not ready (LED is flashing).
Measurement stand-by mode
A flashing orange LED indicates that the spectrometry system is in stand-by mode.
That means that the measurement of a sample can be started immediately.
READY
X-ray tube ON
After a sample has been moved into measurement position, the high-voltage generator is activated.
As soon as the X-ray tube generates the defined X-ray power, the orange LED stays on.
NOTE
After turning on the system, all four illuminated status displays will light until the system control has
finished the initialization of the spectrometry system. After the initialization the green display remains
active
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S4 PIONEER X-ray Spectrometer
DOC-M80-ZXX004 V6 – 03.2007