Your System's Hardware: Setting Up and Using

Before you can acquire data, you must define your system’s hardware. The Hardware Properties, Multiplier Properties, and Gun Properties commands in the System menu provide this capability. Each of these commands displays a tabbed dialog box. Each tab provides the settings for each acquisition technique.

Each field in the pages of each dialog box has a What’s This Help topic associated with it so that you can easily determine the setting for the field as it applies to your situation.

To set up AugerScan to work with your system’s hardware configuration:

  1. Select the Hardware Properties command from the System menu. If this is the first time you are using AugerScan, the General tab is selected. The settings here apply to multiple techniques. Note that the PC137A board base address is only applicable if you are using the PC137A interface. Unless there is a conflict that you know about, this value does not need to be changed.

  2. Select the tab for each technique that used to acquire data and enter the information in the fields.

  3. Select the Multiplier Properties command from the System menu. Select the tab for each technique that you use to acquire data and enter the information in the fields. (If you are acquiring AES data and using a digital multiplier supply, click here to view the procedure for acquiring your multiplier gain curve.)

  4. Select the Gun Properties command from the System menu. Select the tab for each technique that you use to acquire data and enter the information in the fields.

Note: AugerScan supports the UPS technique as part of XPS. Selecting UPS as an XPS source will enable UPS acquisition.

If you are using the RBD147 Interface, see the installation instructions that came with your RBD147 for information on installing the driver for your operating system. Ensure that the RBD147 is cabled and turned on before using AugerScan to acquire data. AugerScan detects the RBD147 automatically; there are no configuration settings to be adjusted.