IC equipment IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station (6.5330.130) Manual 8.110.
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￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ Table of contents Table of contents 1 Introduction 1.1 1 Description ............................................................................ 1 1.2 About the documentation ................................................... 1 1.2.1 Symbols and conventions ........................................................ 2 2 Overview 3 2.1 Parts of the IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station .......... 3 2.2 Parts of the Liquid Handling Station ..................................
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ Table of figures Table of figures Figure 1 Figure 2 IV ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station – Parts ................................... 3 Liquid Handling Station – Parts ..........................................................
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 1 Introduction 1 Introduction 1.1 Description The IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station is used for rinsing the sample needle after sample aspiration. The sample needle is rinsed with ultrapure water in the rinsing unit of the Liquid Handling Station (6.2841.120) after each sample aspiration. The IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station can be mounted on any Sample Processor equipped with a Swing Head and a peristaltic pump.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 1.2 About the documentation 1.2.1 Symbols and conventions The following symbols and formatting may appear in this documentation: Cross-reference to figure legend The first number refers to the figure number, the second to the instrument part in the figure. Instruction step Carry out these steps in the sequence shown.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 2 Overview 2 Overview 2.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 2.2 Parts of the Liquid Handling Station 2.2 Parts of the Liquid Handling Station Figure 2 Liquid Handling Station – Parts 1 Cover For the mixing vessel. 2 Rinsing unit 3 Main body With magnetic stirrer dummy. 4 Rinsing unit inlet Sealed with threaded stopper. 5 Clamping fastener 6 Base plate 7 Support bracket 8 Cable clip 9 Waste connector 10 Mixing vessel outlet Sealed with threaded stopper.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 3 Installation 3 Installation 3.1 Installing the Liquid Handling Station The Liquid Handling Station forms part of the IC equipment: Liquid Handling Station. 1 Installing the Liquid Handling Station Install the Liquid Handling Station on the left side of the Sample Processor (see manual for the Liquid Handling Station). 3.2 Installing the rinsing solution flow path The Sample Processor's peristaltic pump transfers ultrapure water to the Liquid Handling Station's rinsing unit.
3.2 Installing the rinsing solution flow path 2 ￭ ￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ Cut off a piece of the capillary that is approx. 50 cm long using the capillary cutter. 3 Threading the capillary through the bottle holder ￭ ￭ Push one end of the capillary (50 cm) through the M6 tubing nipple (1), the O-ring (2) and the M6 opening of the bottle cap (3) and into the bottle. Loosely secure the capillary in place using the tubing nipple.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 3 Installation 5 Setting the capillary to the correct length ￭ ￭ Push the capillary far enough into the bottle that it reaches the bottom of the bottle. Tighten the tubing nipple. The capillary is secured. 6 Inserting the stopper ￭ Screw the M8 stopper into the M8 opening of the bottle cap. 7 Filling the adsorber tube Fill the adsorber tube as follows: ￭ ￭ ￭ some cotton CO2 adsorber material some cotton Seal the adsorber tube with the stopper.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 3.2 Installing the rinsing solution flow path 8 Inserting the adsorber tube ￭ ￭ Insert the adapter into the SGJ opening of the bottle cap. Screw the adsorber tube into the upper opening of the adapter. Installing the capillary between the supply bottle and the trap column Required accessories ￭ ￭ ￭ PEEK capillary (6.1831.180) Metrosep I Trap 1 - 100/4.0 (6.1014.200) Pressure screw (6.2744.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 3 Installation Installing the capillary between the trap column and the peristaltic pump Required accessories ￭ ￭ ￭ ￭ ￭ PEEK capillary (6.1831.180) Pressure screw (6.2744.010) Pump tubing with yellow stoppers (6.1823.390) Coupling olive/UNF 10/32 (6.2744.034) Capillary cutter (6.2621.080) 1 Preparing the pump tubing ￭ Attach a coupling olive/UNF 10/32 (6.2744.034) to each end of the pump tubing.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 3.2 Installing the rinsing solution flow path ￭ Capillary cutter (6.2621.080) 1 Cutting the capillary to size ￭ Cut off a piece of approx. 60 cm from the long capillary using the capillary cutter. 2 Mounting the capillary ￭ ￭ Tighten one end of the capillary to the pump tubing outlet using a pressure screw (6.2744.010). Tighten the other end of the capillary to the rinsing unit inlet (2-4) using a pressure screw (6.2744.010).
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 4 Operation and maintenance 4 Operation and maintenance 4.1 Replacing the pump tubing Pieces of pump tubing inserted into the peristaltic pump are consumables with a limited service life. Pieces of pump tubing with 3 stoppers are tensioned in the tubing cartridge so that they end up positioned between two stoppers. This results in two possible positions for the tubing cartridge.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 5.1 Liquid Handling Station (6.2841.120) 5 Technical specifications 5.1 Liquid Handling Station (6.2841.120) Information on the technical specifications of the Liquid Handling Station can be found in the manual for the Liquid Handling Station.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ 6 Accessories 6 Accessories Up-to-date information on the scope of delivery and optional accessories for your instrument can be found on the Internet. NOTE When you receive your new instrument, we recommend downloading the accessories list from the Internet, printing it out and keeping it together with the manual for reference purposes.
￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭￭ The Partslists webpage will be displayed. 7 Select the desired output language. 8 With the article number entered, click on the command Generate PDF. The PDF file with the accessories data will be created in the language selected. Direct access for all instruments If you are unable to find your instrument using the search as described above, this may be due to the instrument not being sold anymore.
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