Chromatography Forum

Hello,
we have an old Chrompack CP9001 GC in storage and we would like to take it back into action. It was manufactured in 1995.
Unfortunately we do not have the PC ISA interface card that originally came with that machine, so our only option is to use the data acquisition via RS232 (COM-Port)

does anyone have an idea about what software could be used with this GC for data acquisition?
We do have Maitre 2.5 but it requires the ISA Interface card ChromNet which is missing. This version of Maitre unfortunately can't use COM-Port.

I read that some EZChrom version might work, but it seems impossible to get ahold of it. Maybe there is another option?

Many greetings

Maybe I'm wrong but it seems to me CP9001 does not have built-in ADC.

The ISA card is the ADC, serial port is used for GC thermal settings.

Maybe this old topic can help:
https://www.chromforum.org/viewtopic.php?t=5714

Hello,

The CP-Maitre 2.5 (older name CP-Maestro) was for the main software (original that was ezchrom 6.8 software). You need to split the communication for the control and the data collection. There was a special board (name is ChromNet card) for the computer (need ISA slot) and an other small box (name is ComMod) and it could work only win98.

But if the data collection is enough for You (You are control from the GC), than the GC can work via RS232 and this old software can work win7 32bits version (maybe also in win10).
You need to select Maitre I in the installation. Than should work via RS232.

The software is protected by a dongle, which is connected to a parallel printer port.

Regards,