Maintenance
SkanWasher 400 User Guide
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Weekly Maintenance
Perform maintenance once a week or after use of a contaminated solution in
instrument to decontaminate system as well as clean probes.
Step 1
Perform Daily Maintenance to rinse system.
Step 2
Fill a reservoir bottle with 2% bleach solution or other decontami-
nant solution (maximum bleach solution allowable to use is 10%).
Step 3
Connect tubing to instrument.
Connect rinse inlet and pressure tubing to new reservoir bottle.
Verify waste tubing is connected to outlet port.
Step 4
Insert a clean microplate into the microplate holder.
Step 5
Start Rinse program.
Press the
[Rinse]
key to enter the Rinse/Prime mode.
Press the
[Rinse]
key a second time to start the rinse program.
(The rinse program will rinse for 5 seconds and then soak the
probe tips for 5 seconds. This cycle is repeated 3 times.)
Step 6
Soak Probes.
Press
[Stop]
key to pause when instrument is in first soak cycle
of Rinse program.
Let probes sit 5 minutes in decontaminant solution.
Continue Rinse program by pressing
[Rinse]
key twice.
Step 7
Replace reservoir bottle with rinse reservoir bottle filled with dis-
tilled water.
Step 8
Start Rinse program.
Press the
[Rinse]
key to enter the Rinse/Prime mode.
Press the
[Rinse]
key a second time to start the rinse program.
(The rinse program will rinse for 5 seconds and then soak the
probe tips for 5 seconds. This cycle is repeated 3 times.)
Step 9
Repeat Rinse program 5 times.
Step 10 Remove microplate by pressing the
[Stop]
key twice.
Step 11 If end of the day, proceed with Empty Wash Head Procedure.
!! IMPORTANT:
Perform Daily
Maintenance before running a
decontaminant solution through
instrument to rinse out all buffer
products.
