Thermo Scientific iEMS Incubator, User Manual

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Chapter 6: Operation
Thermo Scientific iEMS Incubator / Shaker HT User Manual Rev. 2.4, Cat. no. 1506400A 32
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
–
3
). 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.
PLACE 1
900 rpm
00:00:20
PLACE NUMBER
PLACE 2
PROHIBITED OPERATION
READY 09:29:35