YSI ADV6600 - Manual (Page 12)

Section 1. Introduction to the ADV6600
ADV6600
Y S I
Environmental
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environmental enforcement personnel, officials of water utilities, and fish farmers, to name a few,
recognize YSI as the leader in dissolved oxygen measurement. In the 1970s, YSI commercialized
another Clark invention, the enzyme membrane, which resulted in the first practical use of a
biosensor to measure blood sugar accurately and rapidly. Over the years, this technology was
extended to applications in biotechnology, health care, and sports medicine.
In the 1990s, YSI launched a product line of multi-parameter water monitoring systems to address
the emerging need to measure non-point source pollution. YSI has thousands of instruments in the
field that operate with the push of a button, store data internally, and communicate with computers.
These instruments are ideal for profiling and monitoring water conditions in industrial and
municipal wastewater effluents, lakes, rivers, wetlands, estuaries, and coastal waters. With on-board
battery power, the instruments may be left unattended for weeks with measurement parameters
sampled at the user’s choice of time interval and data securely saved in the unit’s internal memory.
The fast response of YSI’s sensors makes the systems ideal for vertical profiling and their small size
allows them to fit down 2-inch diameter monitoring wells. All YSI multi-parameter systems feature
the patented Rapid Pulse
TM
Dissolved Oxygen sensor, which exhibits low stirring dependence.
YSI Incorporated is an international company with world headquarters in Yellow Springs, Ohio.
The employee-owned company manufactures and markets sensor technologies dedicated to
ecological sustainability. Its three strategic business units include YSI Environmental, YSI
Temperature, and YSI Life Sciences.
SonTek, founded in 1992 and acquired by YSI in 2001, is a world leader in the field of water
velocity measurement. SonTek manufactures affordable, reliable acoustic Doppler current profilers,
velocimeters, Doppler velocity logs, and integrated systems for use in oceans, rivers, lakes, harbors,
estuaries and laboratories.
YSI has established a worldwide network of selling partners in 54 countries that includes laboratory
supply dealers, manufacturers’ representatives, and YSI’s sales force. Subsidiaries are located in the
United Kingdom, Japan, Hong Kong, and China.
Employee-owned since 1983 and named ESOP Company of the Year in 1994 by the national ESOP
Association, every YSI employee is one of its owners. YSI is proud of its products and is committed
to serving its customers.
1-3. How to Use This Manual
The manual is organized to let you quickly understand and operate the YSI ADV6600
Environmental Monitoring System. However, it cannot be stressed too strongly that informed and
safe operation is more than just knowing which buttons to push. An understanding of the principles
of operation, calibration techniques, and system setup is necessary to obtain accurate and
meaningful results.