Calibration Screen Shortcuts
As an added convenience, PeakSimple for Windows offers shortcuts to com–
monly used screens. These shortcuts may
be
accessed by pointing to the desired
channel and clicking once on the right mouse button, The following pages de–
scribe the shortcuts available to set up calibration tables andcalibrate components,
After a known standard has been run and the peaks have been identified, a new
component table may be constructed by simply positioning the mouse pointer over a
peakand clicking onceon the rightmouse button, ("right-clicking) . The shortcut menu
will appear. Select Add component from themenu, A retention windowwill be drawn
horizontally across the peak. Right-click again over the peakand select Edit compo–
nent The Component Details screen will open allowing the peak to
be
named and
numbered, The example below shows Benzene as peak #2. The component has
been nameds-cenzeoe to avoid confusionwith abenzene peak fromanother detector
suchas a PID,
Note: It is important that you choose the component name carefully since the
cal'bration file name Is derived from the fi rst eight lettel'5 of the component
name. The s-ceneene calibration file would be named F·benzen.cal.
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Right-click over the peak again and
select Calibrate. If no calibration curve
exists for the peak, a window will open
asking if you would like to use a calibra–
tion fife, PeakSimple offers a template
calibration file aptty named TEMPLATE.
CAl. Click yes to use the default TEM–
PLATEcalibration file or select your own
by clicking Browse, This example uses
the temptate calibration frle. Another
windowwill open asking you to select the
Recalibration Level.
Select
100 for 100
ppmstandards. 50 for 50 ppm. etc.
