High Technology, Inc.
109 Production Road,
Walpole MA 02081 USA
Document Number
OM-E-FC-360-30
Revision Level
Rev. 3
Prepared by
J.S. Bolio
Approved by
S. Titov
Effective Date
8/15/2016
Operator’s Manual: HTI BioChem FC-360
HIGH TECHNOLOGY, INC. PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL
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9. Calibrate the photometer and all the cuvettes
Maintenance
Instrument
Calibration
select
Calibrate photometer
select
Calibrate cuvettes
Range 1 to 100
select the
position of the solution to use ex:
Use container
OK
General cleaning of the instrument
1.
Washing the containers
: disconnect the waste and washing solution tubes and clean the
containers with plenty of water. Washing solution container: rinse with distilled water. Waste
container: rinse with commercial sodium hydrochloride 30% solution and plenty of water.
2.
Cleaning the reagent tray:
turn off the instrument and the reagent refrigeration. Remove all the
reagent bottles and clean the reagent tray and sample tray with a damp cloth.
3.
Cleaning the cuvette tray:
clean the black surface of the cuvette tray with a damp cloth.
4.
Cleaning externally
: with a damp cloth, clean the external covers, lids, hood of the pipetting arm.
Caution: the instrument needs to be turned off during this procedure. Take care not to spill
liquids on the instrument.
5.
Cleaning the tip externally:
clean the tip from top to bottom with paper towel dipped in isopropyl
alcohol.
Caution: When performing this procedure, avoid removing the PTFE cover of the volume sensor
probe.
Back-up of files in use
1. Select
Methods
Save
an explore window will open
select the back-up file destination for a
removable drive, ex. USB (E:)
name the method file in use as
methods yymmdd.adb
, where
yy
is
the year,
mm
the month and
dd
the day for the date of the back-up
Save
2. Repeat the same procedure for the calibrator and control files by going to the Calibrator and Control
menus.
3. Back-up methods, calibrators and controls files when these are configured for the first time or
whenever configuration changes are made.
4. Select
Maintenance
Menu
Settings
Enter password
Database
tab
press
Database
Copy
select the folder where the data will be saved
Copy