first, thanks

> The gas chromatograph has to to hooked to something,
> some kind of sensor at the other end.  Mass Spec is a
> common macro sized instrument used with a GC.  I dont
> think anyone has a miniture MS.  We have stuff like
> tunable laser diodes that detect water spectra (for Mars
> subsoil), and relatively small thermal emission spectroscopes,
> but not in silicon as such.  You can fish around in our
> web sites and see what they are pitching this week.  Sorry
> I cant find the exact page, so start at www.jpl.nasa.gov
>

as far as hooking the gas chromatograph to something,--- the
one that I used before had a suction tube that periodically took a
sample, and then does what a chromatograph does and made a plot,

I don't understand what you mean by saying that the chromatograph
'has to be hooked to something'???



AND

> I am not a sensor guy, I am a battery guy, which may be of some
> help to people on this list.  I am TRYING to become a PIC guy too.

I'm not a microcontroller pro either, and for what it's worth, after beating
my
assembly language head against the wall, I finally got a compiler, and
started
to make some faster and less frustrating progress on my pic projects.  From
one new-picster to another...

Thanks, I'll check out the web for sniffers
cheers  --  rad0

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