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Leica ST5020
5.4.5 Movement
For
•
NUMBER OF DIPS
•
DIP AMPLITUDE
•
LIFTING SPEED
only the settings indicated on
the buttons can be selected.
The currently selected setting
shows on the button next to the
"
=
" symbol. Press the button to
go to the next higher setting.
•
NUMBER OF DIPS
:
Indicates how often the gripper dips the
rack into a reagent container before the
rack is immersed in that container. '
Yes
'
must be selected in the
DIPS
column of the
corresponding program.
No dips are performed if the setting
"Number of Dips = '0'" is used, even if
'Yes' is entered in the DIP column in
the program.
Fig. 40
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→
5. Operation
•
DIP AMPLITUDE
:
Defines the stroke length of the arm when
dipping the rack ('2' = longer stroke than '1').
•
LIFT SPEED
:
Indicates at what speed racks are removed
from reagent containers. The smaller the
numbers selected, the slower the speed. At
slower speeds, less reagent is carried over.
Any changes in this menu require administrator mode. For this reason, changes can only be per-
formed if no staining programs are active.
The parameters set in MOVEMENT are valid for all programs.
