Mark,

A reasonable suggestion, but I don't think it's that. I've used the loader
to restore a copy of the firmware from back when the system was working,
which should have overridden any changes to the Pal set up. Not sure where
to find a "wait for GC ready" value though.

Paul


At 09:28 AM 11/24/2004, you wrote:

>Paul
>
>We had issues with the PAL injecting samples into a GC.  The issue appeared
>to be that the PAL was waiting for a ready signal from the GC.  Although
>your PAL is not connected to a GC or waiting for a signal it may be that
>the relay is set for a "ready to inject" signal.  Although I don't have
>access to the PAL at the moment, we resolved the problem by changing the
>default values for the ready to inject signal within the global methods of
>the PAL, such that it did not need a ready signal.
>
>
>Mark
>
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> >Listmembers,
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> >I'm having trouble with my CombiPal, which in the past has worked just fine
> >on my TC/EA (coupled to a Delta Plus XL). Isodat seems to be unable to
> >trigger an injection from a sequence run.
> >
> >- The Pal seems fine, I can manually trigger an injection (using method1).
> >- The Loader software is able to communicate with the Pal, on Com1.
> >- Isodat is also configured for the Pal on Com1.
> >- The A200S method builder within Isodat is successfully able to send a new
> >method to the Pal.
> >- Within the sequence, I'm selecting "internal method 1" and a valid sample
> >number.
> >
> >Does anyone have a thought as to why the software isn't triggering the
> >autosampler?
> >
> >(I don't have the very latest Isodat patch: when I tried installing that,
> >Isodat crashed every time I tried to start an autosampler run)
> >
> >Paul Eby
> >University of Victoria