PerkinElmer EnVision, Instrument Manual

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Functional description
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Dispense – only dispensing takes place but no measurement. In this case
parallel dispensing is used when there is a dual tip mount.
There is a waste container in the instrument. This is used when operations
such as rinse occur. A separate aspiration tip connected to a waste pump is
used to empty this waste container when necessary. This operation occurs
automatically.
The liquid reservoir is placed on a hot plate which also includes the
possibility to operate a magnetic stirrer. Both the temperature of the hot
plate and the speed of the magnetic stirrer can be controlled by settings in
the software.
Maintenance operations can be performed with:
- the instrument lid closed when the tip mount is in its place
- the instrument lid opened when the tip mount is outside the instrument
Barcodes
Your instrument uses the following barcodes:
Filter/mirror barcodes
All filter and mirror modules are barcoded, this makes their use much
easier.
Plate barcodes
The barcode reader allows you to load barcode labeled plates, which are
identified by the barcode reader. Codabar, Code39, Interleaved 2 of 5 and
Code 128 barcodes can be read.
Tip mount barcodes
Each tip mount is barcoded so that the system knows that the correct tip
mount is in the instrument for the dispensing required.
PC and printer
Your instrument has the following requirements for PC and printer:
PC configurations
The workstation software is run under Windows XP on a Pentium
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computer (1.7 GHz), minimum 512 MB memory, with 30 GB available hard
disk space or Windows Vista on a Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (1.8 GHz, 800
MHz, 2MB), minimum 1GB memory, with 80 GB available hard disk
space. The computer is equipped with a CD-ROM, an Ethernet card and a
24-bit color display with minimum resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels.