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How to cycle power to ACQUITY LC stack - WKB246718

Article number: 246718

OBJECTIVE or GOAL

Power cycle or reboot hardware components and the controlling computer. 

ENVIRONMENT

  • Empower 3
  • Empower 3 Personal
  • Empower 3 Workgroup
  • Empower 3 Enterprise
  • ACQUITY APC
  • ACQUITY APC Isocratic Solvent Manager
  • ACQUITY APC Sample Manager - FTN
  • ACQUITY Arc
  • ACQUITY Arc Premier
  • ACQUITY Arc Sample Manager FTN-R
  • ACQUITY UPLC
  • ACQUITY UPLC BSM (example, use other modules as needed)
  • ACQUITY UPLC Column Manager
  • ACQUITY UPLC H-Class
  • ACQUITY UPLC H-Class Bio
  • ACQUITY UPLC H-Class Quaternary Solvent Manager (QSM)
  • ACQUITY UPLC I-Class
  • ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS
  • ACQUITY UPLC H-Class PLUS Bio
  • ACQUITY UPLC I-Class PLUS
  • ACQUITY UPLC M-Class
  • nanoACQUITY UPLC
  • PATROL UPLC Process Analysis System
  • ACQUITY UPLC Process Sample Manager
  • ACQUITY UPLC Column Heater
  • ACQUITY UPLC PDA Detector
  • ACQUITY UPLC Sample Manager 
  • ACQUITY UPLC Sample Manager - Flow Through Needle PLUS (SM-FTN PLUS)
  • ACQUITY UPLC Sample Organizer
  • ACQUITY UPLC Tunable UV Detector
  • ACQUITY UPLC FLR Detector
  • ACQUITY UPLC RI Detector
  • ACQUITY UPLC Online SPE Man
  • ACQUITY PREMIER
  • LAC/E32

PROCEDURE

  1. Turn off LC components.
  2. Turn off Empower computer.
  3. Wait two minutes.
  4. Turn on Empower computer.
  5. Log in to desktop of computer.
  6. Wait five minutes.
  7. Turn on ACQUITY instrument with the switch on the back.
    • Traditionally this is the ACQUITY FTN.
    • If ACQUITY UPLC (Classic) is in use, this may be the column compartment.
  8. Turn on the rest of the LC components.
  9. Wait two minutes.
  10. Open Empower.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

To ensure that communication is correct upon startup, see WKB7330 How To Configure the Waters DHCP Server to control the Ethernet instruments 

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