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Chapter 3: Preparing for a run
BioCel User Guide
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About robotically
loaded
counterweights
For the robot to be able to load a counterweight:
❑
The platepad containing the counterweight must be associated in
VWorks with the type of labware used for the counterweight so the
robot knows how to pick it up.
This association is created by an administrator in the manage
counterweights database when creating the protocol.
❑
The Centrifuge task that uses the counterweight must specify from
which device to pick up the counterweight.
This is specified by an administrator when creating the Centrifuge
task for the protocol.
❑
The counterweight plate must be placed by the operator on the
platepad specified in the Centrifuge task.
!! IMPORTANT !! It is the operator’s responsibility to make sure
that the counterweight on the pickup platepad is of the correct type
to balance the sample plate. VWorks does not generate an error if
the type of counterweight picked up does not match the type of
sample plate.
Note: The administrator who creates a protocol can add user messages
to the protocol to remind the operator before a run which types of plate
to put on which platepad.
Setting up
robotically loaded
counterweights To set up robotically loaded counterweights:
1. Identify a process that includes a Centrifuge task, look at the plate
instance and note the type of plate used for the process.
2. In the same process pane, click the
Centrifuge
task in the process.
3. In the Protocol Task Parameters toolbar, note the name of the device
defined in the Select counterweight to use list.
If you are unable to select a device, the administrator has not yet
defined a counterweight.
Note: If you have just added a counterweight and it does not
appear in the list, click a different task and click back on the
Centrifuge task.
4. Repeat the procedure for the remaining Centrifuge tasks in the
protocol.
It might help to create a table that looks like this one, which
replicates the relevant information from the manage counterweights
database:
5. Place the counterweights on the platepads with which they are
associated.
Plate Type Platepad
w 1
x 2
y 3