CELL-DYN
®
3200 System Operator’s Manual
4-5
9140181K—July 2002
Section 4
Performance Characteristics and Specifications
Operational Specifications
Operating Environment
Indoor Use
Laboratory Temperature
15–30°C (59°–86°F)
Relative Humidity
20–80%, RHNC
Startup/Shutdown Times
Auto-Startup (from STANDBY) Approximately 5.0 minutes
Auto-Startup (from power OFF) Approximately 7.0 minutes*
Shutdown (to STANDBY)
10 minutes
* The laser requires a 15 minute warm up time. If the power has been OFF
longer than 5 minutes, wait 10 minutes after the Auto-Startup cycle is
complete before processing samples.
Run Cycle Times
Table 4.4 shows the average Run cycle times for different specimen types run in
the Open and Closed Modes on the CS and SL models.
Approximate Aspiration Volumes (Whole Blood)
Open mode
150 µL
Closed mode
240 µL
Batch Size
Up to 50 tubes per batch
Table 4.4
Instrument Average Run Cycle Times
CS and SL - Models
Cycle Times:
Ready to Ready
OPEN
Patient
51 seconds
QC, Fragile WBC
95 seconds
Resistant RBC
93 seconds
CLOSED
Patient
60 seconds
QC, Fragile WBC,
Resistant RBC
103 seconds
