This isn’t a guidebook or the first thing you should read when using SpectraSuite. Instead, it’s a list of procedures NOT included in the SpectraSuite Manual plus some tips and shortcuts for making your time with SpectraSuite a more productive one. Be warned: if you don’t understand some jargon, that’s because I won’t be explaining them if they’re already in the manual.
The ones I’m listing here are those I’ve encountered while setting a reference monitor.
How to terminate an acquisition:
1. Choose Spectrometer > Acquisition > Acquisition Console
2. Choose the channel/spectrometer you want to stop/terminate.
3. Click terminate.
How to start an acquisition in a NEW graph:
1. Terminate the acquisition (see above on how to terminate).
2. On the “Data Sources” window, right click on the Channel that you want to have a separate graph of, and choose “Spectrum Graph.”
3. Choose “Show data in new graph.”
The steps for getting a reference monitor are already outlined in the SpectraSuite Manual. However, I’m giving some tips to make the process easier.
Tip 1: Open the 2 channels in two separate graphs.
Tip 2: In order to activate the “Add reference monitor” icon, you must click on the GRAPH ITSELF, not the word “Graph” on the Data Sources window.
A last reminder: even if you have a reference monitor (which is of course set up in ANOTHER channel other than the one you’re using for sample acquisition), if you want to measure Absorbance, Reflectance and Transmittance, it’s a MUST that you get a reference spectrum for the sample acquisition channel.
