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CAUTION!
WHEN THE VALUE REACHES ZERO, A MESSAGE APPEARS
ON THE SCREEN, WARNING ABOUT THE EXHAUSTION OF RESOURCE LIMIT
OF A REAGENT:
<RESOURCE LIMIT OF TROUGH # XX IS EXHAUSTED>
It gives the opportunity to duly change reagent in the respective trough. To continue
the process, press the button CANCEL. The value is reset after each reloading of the
Stainer.
- <DELAY> – editable parameter: the duration of a rack's delay in the upper position
after rising from a trough (0-99 seconds, the default value is 10).
The set values are saved at returning to a previous screen after pressing the button
CANCEL.
The bottom part of the menu section «CONFIGURATION» (Fig. 20) has the following
buttons:
MAIN MENU INTERVAL SERVICE
MAIN MENU – to return to the main menu.
INTERVAL – to set the interval between introductions of racks with slides into the process
(see Item 5.3.1).
SERVICE – to switch to the service menu.
5.3.1 Setting the interval of the introduction of racks into the process.
The default duration of the interval is defined automatically, and it is equal to the sum
of durations of all technological operations for a certain technological program, not including
the time, needed for transferring a rack and for delay of a rack above the trough after its
rising.
To process racks in parallel and to increase the performance of the Stainer
respectively, the value of the interval can be changed with accuracy of a second. The
maximum duration of the interval is 16 hours 00 minutes 00 seconds. Data format is
HH:MM:SS. The value of the interval is entered with the digital keyboard (Fig. 22). If you
need to erase a wrongly entered value, press the button
. To save the entered value of
the interval, press the button ENTER.