PerkinElmer OilExpress 4, User Manual

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116 . OilExpress 4 System User's Guide
8. Rotate the hinged arm back into place, carefully feeding the tubing into their respective
grooves as you do so (Figure 65).
Figure 65 Shuttle hinged arm closed; tubing in grooves
9. Ensure the tubing to the injection station is positioned correctly in the lower groove,
and that the tubing to the FCM is positioned correctly in the upper grove.
10. Close the securing clip and tighten the screw (Figure 66).
Figure 66 Flow cell installed in sample shuttle
11. If you have a DUO system and are replacing the tubing to the lower flow cell, follow the
instructions in
Installing the Sample Shuttle
on page 124 to install the sample shuttle in
the lower spectrometer, taking care not to trap the loose tubing from the flow cell.
12. Direct the (longer) tubing from the upper port of the flow cell across the front of the
spectrometer towards the FCM, ensuring that there are no loops or crimps in the tubing.
13. Screw the blue nut connector (clockwise) into the CELL connection on the side of
mounting block on the rear of the FCM.
Ensure that the tubing does not kink. For details of the connections on the rear of the
FCM refer to Figure 31, which shows a blue nut connector already installed in the
mounting block.
Securing clip