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TDMG0002 Icon-5 Maintenance Guide
– Version: 02 – Release date: 2020-04-27
Step 13: Fluidics cleaning
Frequency:
1 year or 10000 samples
part#: N/A
For maintaining the analyzer fluidics please perform the following cleaning procedure.
The Icon-5 has the Hard Cleaning options for both WBC and RBC measuring channel.
Perform both using the
Norma-iOptiClean
and
Norma-iHClean
cleaning solutions.
In case of older SW version analyzer perform the following steps:
Norma-iHClean
or similar
solution is needed for this process.
Take the
Norma-iHClean
(or hypochlorite) solution and immerse the diluent pickup tube
into it.
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Run diluent prime 3 times and go to service level.
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Run 5 stress and take out the diluent pickup tube from the cleaning solution.
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Run prime diluent 3 times while the diluent pickup tube is open to air.
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Rinse the pickup tube with DI water and put it back into the diluent container.
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Run Diluent prime 3 times.
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Run 10 stress cycles. PLT background should be decreasing near to 0.
This cleaning process will clean off all inner tubing and component related to diluent
reagent.
