VWR International VWR 10, Instruction Manual

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GETTING STARTED
Switch on your VWR Electronic Pipette:
Press the Push-button to activate the pipette. The start-up screen
appears:
The pipette will do a self-calibration test, the firmware resets
the piston.
During initialization, displayed on the screen, you will see the
volume range,version of firmware and the number of readjustments.
Your VWR Electronic Pipette is preset on PIPET mode and is now
ready to pipette (see Chapter 5).
VWR Electronic Pipette goes into sleep mode after 3 minutes
of inactivity. The display will shut off.
Just press the Push-button to reactivate the pipette, your last setting
and pipetting mode will appear on the screen.
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DESCRIPTION
VWR Electronic Pipette single and multichannel models:
Upper part:
VWR Electronic Pipette is provided with a minimal battery charge. Before
using it, we strongly recommend you to fully charge the battery. VWR
Electronic pipette charges 80 % of its full battery capacity in less than an hour;
it takes three hours to fully charge the battery.
Please refer to VWR Electronic pipette power management for charging
procedure.
Push-button and volume adjustment knob
Mode-button: direct access to all menu functions
Tip-ejector button
Display
Elastomer plug to cover the battery charging port
Identity-tag window
Connecting nut – attaches handle to lower part