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Part A: LabTec™ Methadone Hardware:
1.0 Hardware Overview:
The LabTec has been designed to automate routine dispensing of Methadone from the 0.5 ml to 30
ml range, or the equivalent of 5 to 300 mg of Methadone as used in the United States. The LabTec
allows you to easily calibrate the unit at 200 mg (100 mg for the older powder blue units) and does
an excellent job of helping your clinical software maintain accurate inventories. Refer to the
calibration instructions later in this manual.
2.0 Pump Head/Motor:
The LabTec™ Methadone Dispenser comes with a 3400 RPM, optically encoded, servo-
controlled motor and a RH1-CKC piston pump head. Materials of construction: the pump body is
made of Kynar, the piston and cylinders are made of ceramic. Both Kynar and ceramic are inert
materials and do not interact/react with Methadone. The head is equipped with a vernier style
adjustment that makes calibration easy.
NOTE:
It is critical that the head be kept clean when not in use.
This cannot be emphasized
enough to the clinical staff. Most Methadone in use is flavored, containing sugar and other
ingredients that will crystallize inside the head and cause it to freeze up, yielding the “Check Pump
Head” error mentioned above. Please refer to the cleaning procedures section of this manual.
Red ring;
Stationary
Set Screw;
Do not loosen!
Inlet Port
Outlet Port
Silver textured ring;
Used to make
adjustments during
Calibration
