Chromeleon 7 can co-exist with Chromeleon 6 (or PeakNet™ 6) on the same computer. Chromeleon 7 is installed in a different folder and does not affect the Chromeleon 6 installation. You can use the Chromeleon 6 and 7 clients at the same time.

However, you cannot control instruments using the two software versions at the same time.

CAUTION

You cannot control an instrument using the Chromeleon 6 server and the Chromeleon 7 Instrument Controller at the same time. When running Chromeleon 6 and 7 on the same computer, an instrument allocated to the Chromeleon 6 server is not available to the Chromeleon 7 Instrument Controller (and vice versa).

  • To avoid conflicts between the Chromeleon 7 Instrument Controller and the Chromeleon 6 server, do not enable the options to start these services automatically.