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7 Maintenance and troubleshooting
Diagnostic tools
BenchCel Microplate Handler User Guide
Moving plates between teachpoints
You can move a microplate between teachpoints when you are verifying a teachpoint
or to determine whether to home the motors.
CAUTION
To prevent collision, remove obstacles in the path of the robot.
To move plates between teachpoints:
1
Manually place a microplate at one of the two teachpoints.
2
In
BenchCel Diagnostics
, click the
Controls
tab, and then select the
Slow
speed.
3
In the graphical display area, click the plus sign (
) at either of the following:
•
The teachpoint you want to move to
•
Two teachpoints between which you want to move a plate
The selected teachpoints should be highlighted in red circles (
).
4
Rest the pointer on a selected teachpoint. In the command menu that appears,
select one of the following:
Command
Description
Move to
<teachpoint>
Moves the robot from its current position to the selected
teachpoint. The robot stays at the teachpoint.
Pick from
<teachpoint>
Picks up the microplate from the selected teachpoint and
moves the plate to the ready-for-upstack position under the
stacker head.
Place at
<teachpoint>
Moves the robot from its current position and places the
microplate at the selected teachpoint. After placing the
microplate, the robot backs away from the teachpoint into
the safe zone.
