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6.3 

Troubleshooting 

 

 
 

PROBLEM 

POSSIBLE CAUSE 

SOLUTION 

Camera  not  connected 
or not responding 

Camera  power  cable  not 
plugged in 

 

 
Software  driver  for  the 
camera is missing 
 
 
 

Make  sure  all  cables  are 
connected  as  shown  in  the 
Installation quick guide 
 
Install Camera driver 
 
Press  the refresh  button  on  the 
gelLITE icon 

‘Hardware not available’ 

You  do  not  have  the 
correct filter or lighting for 
the 

dye 

you 

have 

selected 
 
Check  the  ‘hardware  list’ 
on the hardware screen 

Contact 
[email protected] 
to upgrade your system 
 
Programme  in  any  extra  lights 
or  filters  that  you  may  have  on 
the hardware screen 

Dye not in list 

Your  dye  is  not  in  the 
database 

Contact 
[email protected] 

Dye name is greyed out 

You  do  not  have  the 
appropriate  hardware  to 
image that particular dye 
 
Check  the  ‘hardware  list’ 
on the hardware screen 

Contact 
[email protected]’ 
to upgrade your system 
 
Programme  in  any  extra  lights 
or  filters  that  you  may  have  on 
the hardware screen 

Transilluminator will not 
turn on 

Make sure the 
transilluminator switch is 
in the ‘on’ position  
 
 
Make sure the darkroom 
cabinet is completely 
closed 
 

If  the  transilluminator  will  not 
turn  on  then  please  contact 
[email protected] 
 
Transilluminator  will  not  turn  on 
when  the  cabinet  door  is  open 
for safety reasons 
 
The tubes may need replacing 
 

Содержание gelLITE

Страница 1: ...1 gelLITE manual...

Страница 2: ...zard 1 3 Enabling secure user accounts 1 4 Setting up hardware Chapter Two Auto Capture and Manual Image Acquisition 2 0 Auto Capture 2 0 1 Sample Selection 2 0 2 Dye Selection 2 0 3 Protocol Selectio...

Страница 3: ...figurations 5 1 Saving Configurations 5 1 1 Saving Configurations in Autocapture mode 5 1 2 Saving Configurations in Manual mode 5 1 3 Opening Configurations Chapter Six Troubleshooting and General In...

Страница 4: ...ont door and an internal white light 1 1 Applications supported Transilluminator UV White Light Pad Blue LED Transilluminator Ethidium Bromide RunSAFE SYBR Green SYBR Gold SYBR Safe Gel Green Gel Red...

Страница 5: ...ty CAMERA CMOS Digital camera USB2 connection FILTER DRAWER Use a range of filters for extensive choice of fluorescent applications SAFETY SWITCH Protects from accidental UV exposure when opening the...

Страница 6: ...afe blue as well as protein gels stained with colorimetric stains such as Coomassie and Silver stains 1 2 3 2 proBLUEVIEW transilluminator The proBLUEVIEW transilluminator is ideal for safely imaging...

Страница 7: ...sions of Windows operating systems are not supported 1 2 4 3 Software Installation This section provides information regarding the installation of genePIX image capture software You will need to insta...

Страница 8: ...ext Select from the list the hardware that you have then click Next Specify CFR settings you would like to enable If you are not working within a CFR compliant environment leave all boxes unchecked Cl...

Страница 9: ...more folder options Click Next 1 2 4 6 Select Start Menu Folder Please select where you would like to create the shortcuts for the program To select a different folder click the browse button Click Ne...

Страница 10: ...ick Next Click Finish to complete the Device Driver Installation Wizard 1 3 Enabling secure user accounts To enable a secure user account you must use your Microsoft Windows account log in Secure user...

Страница 11: ...preferences on the type of report settings that you would like You can select to view or print the full report Image File description and capture properties or the basic report image and capture setti...

Страница 12: ...12 Figure 2 User Preferences page...

Страница 13: ...that form a structured workflow The workflow is very easy to navigate through by using the green bouncing arrow present in the bottom right hand corner of the screen to move forward to the next screen...

Страница 14: ...ng conditions for your sample based on the excitation and emission curves of the majority of dyes currently commercially available 2 0 4 Sample Positioning The sample positioning screen shows a live i...

Страница 15: ...either from your recent selections only or by searching for a dye N B untick recent selections only to search the full list Step Four Check the Select Light and Filter box to see the best imaging con...

Страница 16: ...bright image If you wish to perform EDR please check the EDR box Step Six The captured image will appear in the main window The image can now be saved in various file formats sgd TIFF JPG and BMP or p...

Страница 17: ...y or by searching for a dye N B untick recent selections only to search the full list Step Four Check the Select Light and Filter box to see the best imaging condition for your hardware set up Step Fi...

Страница 18: ...ort the image to geneQUANT analysis software To ensure that the image you are capturing is not saturated select the Show Saturation button Figure 5 Saturation will only show when the slider bars have...

Страница 19: ...e on screen instructions Figure 8 Figure 7 Dynamic Fielding check box Depending on which type of sample UV epi lights or transilluminator white light you would like to Dynamic field you may get either...

Страница 20: ...ting and filters present in your system Figure 10 Figure 10 Filter Light selection Once you have selected a light and filter you need to set the exposure time Use the buttons to increase or decrease t...

Страница 21: ...ed red show that these bands are saturated genePIX software also has the ability to Dynamic field The dynamic field function is based on powerful algorithms which corrects for uneven illumination This...

Страница 22: ...Stop buttons The histogram tool is very useful for illustrating the distribution of grey scales within the image Figure 18 The level of grey scales produced is dependent on exposure time up to 65536...

Страница 23: ...rmation button also provides information on the range of black and white levels You can also point the mouse arrow over a band and the black and white levels and XY coordinates appear in this box Figu...

Страница 24: ...s will remove the image from every image pool If the image has not been saved the software will prompt you to save the image before removing it Figure 24 The Close button The image pool also permits t...

Страница 25: ...you can export an image save and print images 3 1 Saving Images Images captured with genePIX software can be saved in several formats To save an image simply press touch screen or click on the followi...

Страница 26: ...e displayed image select between bmp and jpg formats N B BMP and jpg formats will save as 8 bit files and you will therefore lose quantitative data This format should only be used for the export of vi...

Страница 27: ...rting Images to geneQUANT analysis software Various file formats can be exported from genePIX to geneQUANT Cleaver Scientific recommends uncompressed TIFF or sgd to maintain quantification To export a...

Страница 28: ...the top left hand side of the screen allowing you to switch between annotation enhancement tools and 3D view Figure 33 Figure 33 screen annotation enhancement and 3D icons The icons from left to right...

Страница 29: ...the text double click on it A window will appear enabling selection of font size and style The text box can be dragged around the screen as can all the annotation This tool can be used when you wish t...

Страница 30: ...annotated objects i e the line thickness and style can be altered using the drop down menu Any annotations made will be automatically saved when images are in SGD format When saving in other formats y...

Страница 31: ...rsor can then be used to freely rotate the image b To finalise fix the rotation click button a To reset the orientation of the image press c Figure 39 Rotation icons a rotation fix button b arrow curs...

Страница 32: ...harpen flip and crop the image Figure 42 Figure 42 Image Enhancement tools Click on this icon to apply a sharpening filter to your image When this filter has been applied band edges should become more...

Страница 33: ...aced in the cabinet the wrong way round Select icon allows you to select an area of interest within the captured image The crop icon will crop the selected area of interest and paste into a separate w...

Страница 34: ...with a mouse to position as required Use the Gamma slider to adjust the gamma of the image to see fainter bands Figure 45 Figure 45 3D View gamma slider Adding a false colour wash can improve the con...

Страница 35: ...ns To remove any of the images from this pool simply select the Remove button If you wish to remove all the images from the image pool select the Remove All button Figure 47 Figure 47 Remove image but...

Страница 36: ...e Browse Images screen Figure 50 Figure 50 View Images Screen The zoom slider can be used to increase or decrease the size of the image Figure 51 Figure 51 View Screen digital zoom slider bar The View...

Страница 37: ...Zoom and Range slider bars To adjust the zoom setting of the image s use the slider on the left hand side Move the slider bar towards the to zoom in and towards the to zoom out To adjust the brightne...

Страница 38: ...from the change layout heading 4 9 Load Images screen The Load images screen allows you to open files that are already saved on your computer and to open files from external devices such as USB keys...

Страница 39: ...39 Figure 57 Browse screen...

Страница 40: ...Sample positioning Once you have captured an image you can save this as a configuration by selecting the following icon Figure 58 Figure 58 Configuration Icon A pop up window will appear where you en...

Страница 41: ...ck or Make public the configuration Figure 59 5 1 3 Opening Configurations From the home page you can open saved configurations by simply pressing or selecting the configuration you wish to open Once...

Страница 42: ...allation guide Please visit the Cleaver Scientific website to download the gelLITE technical literature This is also available on your genePIX USB memory stick Quick Guides gelLITE Installation gelLIT...

Страница 43: ...s that you may have on the hardware screen Dye not in list Your dye is not in the database Contact support Cleaverscientific com Dye name is greyed out You do not have the appropriate hardware to imag...

Страница 44: ...two types of image sources original and processed If you have made enhancements to your image such as sharpening smoothing and cropping an area this will alter the image source and the image will now...

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