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WORLD 

PRECISION 

INSTRUMENTS

MPS-4

Multichannel Perfusion System

Serial No._____________________

www.wpiinc.com

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

011720

Summary of Contents for MPS-4

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Page 3: ...Installation 6 Installation 6 Startup 6 Creating a New Perfusion Experiment 6 Set the Experiment Time 7 Preset Each Channel s Perfusion Time 7 Saving Your Experimental Parameters 9 Mode Selection 9 Co...

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Page 5: ...nfluence of metal ions in the moving iron of the solenoid valve on the experimental results Unlike other perfusion systems on the market which often compromise performance to fit every possible applic...

Page 6: ...me is less than 100 nL The injection molded manifold is also designed as an economical disposable item eliminating problems of cross contamination from other experiments Notes and Warnings NOTE Before...

Page 7: ...0mL Syringes 10 3 way Stopcock 10 Luer fitting with barb for 1 16 ID tubing 5 Color Coded Polyurethane Tubing Ribbon 1 manifold Holding Rod 1 manifold with 100 m ID tip 1 manifold with 250 m ID tip 1...

Page 8: ...of this manual INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION Hardware Installation 1 Set the MPS 4 perfusion stand on a stable platform 2 Insert the stainless steel post into the base and tighten the screw 3 Loosen the scre...

Page 9: ...TING INSTRUCTIONS Fig 3 The front panel of the MPS 4 has the operational controls The left section of the MPS 4 front panel contains the Start Reset and Mode buttons and three functional indicator LED...

Page 10: ...install an unsigned driver on Windows 8 on page 19 Appendix D Install the MPS 4 software on Windows 10 on page 22 Startup The perfusion software can be found in the Start menu of Windows under C Prog...

Page 11: ...with the keyboard Move to the next field by filling in both digits of the field or by pressing the spacebar Click Apply when all fields are set to the desired values The perfusion time shown at the ri...

Page 12: ...el click Apply to verify the changes Otherwise the new values will be lost when a different channel is chosen or the Setup window closes 5 You can also set the perfusion time by holding the left mouse...

Page 13: ...der to change the operation mode or choose the serial port choose Mode Setup from the Operation menu press the F3 function key or click the button in the Tool Box The Mode Setup window pops up Click o...

Page 14: ...on The button runs the perfusion process In the Online mode it acts as the button and runs the experiment controlled by the perfusion software In Offline mode the Start button runs the preset perfusio...

Page 15: ...de Press any of the Channel keys if the experiment has to be manually halted This will exit out of TTL Control mode and prevent it from going back into that mode until Reset is pressed or the instrume...

Page 16: ...t the tip of the micro perfusion head is close to the bottom of the dish The access angle is about 35 45 5 Pull a 1 m micropipette Fill the pipette with 150mM NaCl solution to make it a microelectrode...

Page 17: ...lush it CAUTION Unfiltered water could clog the manifold and permanently damage it The manifold is made of PMMA material It can only be washed with water Any organic solvent even alcohol can permanent...

Page 18: ...210x170 mm APPENDIX A DETERMINING FLOW RATE Theoretical Calculation The relationship of flow rate to the height of the liquid column and inner diameter of the capillary tubing can be accurately predic...

Page 19: ...driver Please follow those steps below 1 Since you need to restart the computer multiple times during the operation you need to save your unfinished work and exit all applications before the disable d...

Page 20: ...uments 3 Click the option Update security and a new window appears Fig 14 Select the Recovery tab 4 After selecting the Recovery tab the Advanced startup area appears on the right side of the window F...

Page 21: ...restart 6 After restart the Option screen displays Fig 16 Click Troubleshoot 7 After clicking the option Troubleshoot the Troubleshoot screen appears Fig 17 Click Advanced Options 8 Click the option...

Page 22: ...again The following menu appears on the screen after the restart Fig 20 Press 7 on your keyboard 11 You can press 7 on your keyboard to choose the Disable driver signing enforcement The computer will...

Page 23: ...low the steps shown below to start Windows 8 in Disable Driver Signature Enforcement mode 1 Move the cursor over the top or bottom right corner or the screen and it will show extra options on the righ...

Page 24: ...n the left hand side and then click Restart now button on the right Fig 23 Select the General tab and click Restart now 4 After a restart click Troubleshoot Fig 24 Select the Troubleshoot option 5 Cli...

Page 25: ...Fig 27 Press Restart 8 Choose the Disable Driver Signature Enforcement and hit the Enter key to start Windows Fig 28 Select the Disable Driver Signature Enforcement option and press Enter 9 You shoul...

Page 26: ...e click on it to begin the installation 3 Using the provided USB cable connect the USB port of host computer to the USB port square of the MPS 4 controller and then turn on the power of the MPS 4 cont...

Page 27: ...on your computer depending on what is installed on your computer When the device manager is opened the Other devices Unknown device with yellow background exclamation mark will appear in the director...

Page 28: ...nts 7 Click the Update Driver button The following window appears Fig 33 Select the option to Browse my computer 8 Select and click Browse my computer for driver software A similar window appears Fig...

Page 29: ...from running MPS 4 19 07 exe during the installation For example on the this computer the MPS 4 program was specified to be installed in the following directory location C Program Files x86 MPS 4 Dri...

Page 30: ...ver software was installed from running MPS 4 19 07 exe in step 2 Click the Next in the lower right corner and the following window appears Fig 38 Click the Install option 13 Select and click the Inst...

Page 31: ...ontrollers section and confirm a successful installation of the driver software NOTE After the installation of the MPS 4 driver software a system reboot automatically resumes the state of the driver s...

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