Thermo Electron iEMS, User Manual

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Chapter 6: Operation
iEMS
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Incubator/Shaker User Manual Rev. 3.0, Cat. no. 1506200A 33
6.6 Shaking
Caution: Do not place the microplate holder in or remove it from the instrument
while the instrument is shaking. This may damage the shaking
mechanism.
Caution: Splashing may occur if you use shaking with wells that contain too
much liquid for a given speed. To avoid splashing and potential cross
contamination from well to well, do not overfill wells for a given shaking
speed setting.
When the well is filled to 50% of its nominal volume, the shake speed
setting should not exceed value 4. It is recommended to use the setting
3 in most cases.
Operation Display
You can activate shaking without heating as a separate function by pressing
the
shake
key:
Press
shake
Press the slot number (
1
–
9
). For example,
Press
1
To start shaking, press
start
.
The shaking time and speed are the same as the parameters set in the
programming phase.
After pressing
shake
, you can select the slot numbers by pressing number
keys or by scrolling with the
↵
(Enter) key.
Within a module, if a slot has a
protocol in progress with a shaking
speed of 0, another protocol with a
nonzero shaking speed will not start,
and the display will show:
After the shaking protocol has finished,
the control LED turns to green, and
you will hear a beeping sound.
To stop shaking before the shaking time has elapsed:
Press the slot number and the
stop
key.
The protocol stops, the LED turns to green, and you will hear a beeping sound.
Press
C
to return to the READY state if
you do not need to start a shake.
PLACE NUMBER
PLACE 1
900 rpm
00:00:20
PLACE 2
PROHIBITED OPERATION
READY 09:29:35
READY 09:29:15