GammaVision
®
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2.3.1. Configuring a New Instrument
The first time a new instrument is detected, the dialog shown in Fig. 3 will remind you that all new instruments must be assigned a unique,
non-zero ID number.
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Click OK. You can either manually change the ID Number and
Description as described in the next subsection, or you can click the Renumber New button to renumber only the new instruments.
Fig. 3. New Instruments Must Have a Non-
Zero ID Number.
NOTE
We recommend not using the Renumber All button. In addition, we strongly recommend not renumbering Detectors that “belong” to other users, as this could affect the interaction between their Detectors and their ORTEC software, for instance, if they control their Detectors with
.JOB
files (e.g., the
.JOB
file command
SET_DETECTOR 5
), or use the GammaVision or ISOTOPIC spectroscopy applications. See also the following NOTE and the NOTES in the next section.
NOTE FOR MULTIPLE USERS ON A NETWORK
There are two ways to reduce the chance that other users will renumber your Detectors:
! Add the
-I
flag to their MCB Configuration command line, as described in Section 2.4.2. This will allow you to assign whatever ID Numbers you wish, regardless of the numbers assigned by other users on your network. (Ideally, everyone using ORTEC instruments on your network should make this change.)
! To prevent others from renumbering your Detectors (or performing any other actions except read-only viewing), password-lock your Detectors with the Lock/Unlock Detector command
(Section 5.7.3). If you lock a detector that will be controlled by a JOB stream, remember to include the proper password-unlock commands in your
.JOB
file (Section 10.1.1.4).
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If this is a first-time installation of ORTEC products, all your instruments will be “new.”
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