Glow Discharge Instructions¶

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PELCO easiGlow™¶

Switch on the machine and just click on AUTO RUN. The parameters that will be used are indicated in the screen. If you wish to change them just press PROJ and then change the parameters using the touch screen.
Useful parameters to change are the current and the time for glow discharge. The vacuum level to be reached is set to 0.39mBar.
You can decide also to run one of the preset programs.
- To run a program press MAIN then select PROTOCOLS in the touch screen, then RUN SCREEN and AUTORUN.
- There are 4 glow discharge programs with the following parameters:
  
  PROGRAM 1. Glow discharge for 40 sec with a current of 20mA
  
  PROGRAM 2. Glow discharge for 40 sec with a current of 15mA
  
  PROGRAM 3. Glow discharge for 60 sec with a current of 20mA
  
  PROGRAM 4. Glow discharge for 60 sec with a current of 21mA
When making graphene oxide you can use PROGRAM 4.
When glow discharging positively using amylamine a shorter time (PROGRAM 1 or 2) is recommended. Remember to run an empty run after you used amylamine.
Please do not change program setting without telling me. We can always decide to change these programs, but then we need to upgrade this sheet