3Brain BioCAM X, User Manual

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To unplug the BioChip:
1. Press the BioCAM X’s lock button down to its mid position till you hear a pop.
2. Slide out the BioChip by holding it aside its glass ring (pushing with two fingers on the BioChip PCB),
hence avoiding any shear stress on the glass ring.
Set up a non pre-configured host PC
If your order included a pre-configured host PC you can skip this step. If you are going to configure your
own PC, please follow this instructions before installing the BioCAM X.
1. Install the acquisition board driver by launching the installer and following the instructions. The ac -
quisition board driver are provided to you by the customer support. If you have not received those,
please contact customer support.
2. Get the latest version of BrainWave X by downloading it from http://www.3brain.com/downloads .
Once downloaded, double-click on the installer and follow the instructions.
3. Start BrainWave X. A message requiring to update BrainWave X might be displayed. We strongly rec -
ommend to accept in order to keep your software running at its best. After the installation of updates,
the software automatically restarts. Verify that in the BrainWave X’s Right Status Bar there are no error
message. If you see a message like “No detected acquisition board” it means that either the acqui -
sition board is not installed properly in the PC or its driver are not installed. In the latest case, repeat
step 1.
4. Follow the instruction in “Install the BioCAM X” to verify that all the components are properly installed.
Verify proper functioning
Once you have installed and turned on the BioCAM X, opened and updated BrainWave X on the host
PC and positioned a BioChip together with the reference electrode (see above sections), you can easily
verify the proper functioning of the system by the following check list:
1. Verify that both BioCAM LED and Biochip LED icons in the BrainWave’s Right Status Bar are ON (see
section “BrainWave X” on page 14 ).
2. On BrainWave go to File > Open Recorder. On the new opening window click on the Play button to
start an acquisition and then select a few channels to open their graphs (see “Visualize live data” on
page 29 )and verify that data is acquired from the BioChip (if you have not placed a living sample on it,
you should visualize noise traces in the range of +/- 100 µVolt)
If anything of the above went wrong, please contact the customer support.