Hardware and Installation Manual Owner's manual

• Installation Category II

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Pollution degree 2

• Temperature control: maintains samples using the heater block at a constant temperature

from 35° C to 60° C (95° F to 131° F) +/- 1° C of set point.

• Automatic transfer of assay protocols and new reagent information into the system using a

large capacity read/write DVD

• Automatic sampling from a 96-well microtiter plate, beginning from any well position

• Automatic real-time analysis

• Analysis of multiple assay protocols per microtiter plate

• Barcode reader entry of sample IDs

• Produces sound pressure levels below 85 dBA

Environmental Conditions

• Indoor use only

• Operating temperature: 15-35°C (59-95°F)

• Operating relative humidity: 20-80%, noncondensing

• Operating altitude: up to 2400m (7874 ft) above mean sea level

• Shipping temperature: 0-50°C (32-122°F)

• Storage temperature: 10-40°C (50-104°F)

Electronics

• USB 2.0-compatible communications link for fast data transfer

• Input voltage range: either 100-120 V~, 2.0 A 50/60 Hz or 200-240 V~, 1.0 A 50/60 Hz

Optics

• Reporter channel detection: A/D resolution 16 bits

• Reporter detector: CCD, detection bandwidth of 566 to 614 nm

• Classification detector: CCD

• Limit of Detection (LOD): For the reporter channel, using a blank microsphere from region

078, ≤ 700 molecules of phycoerythrin (PE) per microsphere

• Dynamic Range: For the reporter channel, using a microsphere from region 078, ≥3.0

decades

• Efficiency: Classification Channels: ≥ 80%

Fluidics

• Sample load rate: 20 µL to 500 µL per second

• Sample uptake volume: 20 to 200 mL

• Well-to-well carryover: ≤ 4%

• Sample uptake accuracy: +/- 5%

Technical Overview