Four-Month Maintenance
Cleaning MC Reagent Lines
UniCel DxC Systems Instructions For Use A13914
Maintenance
October 2005
Page 10-51
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Cleaning the MC Lines, Cups, and Stir Bars
Step
Action
1
Select:
• the Utils icon from the menu bar,
• <2> Maintenance,
• <4> Cup Maintenance.
2
Open the left side MC Reagent Compartment door and remove the straws
from the reagent bottles: ALBm, BUNm/UREAm, CREm, GLUCm,
PHOSm, and TPm. Each straw pulls out from the reagent cap. Wipe the
straws dry with lintless tissue.
3
Select all appropriate MC chemistries and <Prime5>. While all the straws
are removed from the reagent bottles, reagent is primed out from the
reagent lines.
Select <Close> when priming is completed.
4
Using the maintenance bottles included in the MC Maintenance Kit, insert
the reagent straws for:
• GLUCm
a
, BUNm/UREAm, ALBm and PHOSm into the container of
10% wash concentrate solution
• TPm and CREm into the container of 1N HCL solution.
Select <Prime20>. The cleaning solution is primed 20 times.
5
When priming is complete, let the solutions sit in the cups for 10 minutes.
6
At the end of the 10-minute period, remove straws from the cleaning
solution, wipe straws dry, and insert all straws into the container of
deionized water.
Select <Close> to exit the pop-up confirmation window.
7
Select <Prime20>. The cups are primed 20 times with deionized water.
8
When priming is complete, remove the reagent straws from the deionized
water and wipe straws dry.
Select <Close> to exit the pop-up confirmation window.
9
Select <Prime5>. Air primes through the lines removing residual water
from the straws.
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