A battery with three types of terminals is disclosed. The transmission family members include three planetary gear sets having seven torque-transmitting mechanisms and a fixed interconnection. A first trigger on the panic device triggers a local alarm that is on-board or off-board the panic device. The invention has particular applicability in liquid-sample preparation for analytical techniques such as liquid and gas chromatography, and solid-phase-extraction, and more specifically to the detection of impurities in a liquid sample, such as in liquid chemicals used in the semiconductor-manufacturing industry. Front arrivals may be monitored as a function of time to develop their respective time evolution and shape. In terms of multiple beat transfers, the number of data transfer requests are reduced, which reduces the amount of switching, bus arbitration and power consumption required.