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Hello all,

We have a Clarity license which to date we've used with a HP5890 via a U-PAD2 A/D converter. The HP5890 has reached the end of its life, meaning we can look to use Clarity for a different instrument. We have a Perkin-Elmer Clarus 580 system which is currently running 'TotalChrom'. We're wondering if it would be possible to use Clarity with this system, as we find it more user-friendly than TotalChrom. However, I can't find any mention of Perkin-Elmer systems and Clarity.

Is it possible to use Clarity with Perkin-Elmer systems? I'm not sure if this would be done using the basic A/D approach (which would I assume need some way of getting a raw signal out of the Clarus 580), or whether the existing serial input to the control PC would work. We're not too worried about controlling the GC from the PC: the instrument screen seems to do this just fine. It's more the data acquisition/recording that we'd ideally like to move to Clarity.

Thanks for any advice,

Joseph Wright

Dear Joseph,
we do not have any dedicated control module for Perkin Elmer instruments, so the control is, unfortunately, not possible. However, the data acquisition via the A/D converter should work for Clarus 500/580, its user manual describes that the GC has one analog output dedicated to each detector configured (PE Clarus 500/580 user manual section 4-137).

Hope that helps,
Regards, Daniel