Using Clarity with Perkin-Elmer Clarus 580 GC

[josephwright]

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

[Daniel Mentlik]

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