4.
Rinse the contaminated wells with deionized water (see “Detailed procedures for cleaning the
sample block”
5.
Install the block and heated cover (see “Install a block”
).
6.
Perform a background calibration to confirm that you have eliminated the contamination (see
“Perform calibrations”
7.
If the contamination remains, clean the contaminated wells with a 95% ethanol solution.
Repeat step 2 to step 6 with a 95% ethanol solution (see “Detailed procedures for cleaning the
sample block”
IMPORTANT!
Always use deionized water to rinse wells after cleaning with bleach or ethanol
solution.
8.
If the contamination remains, clean the contaminated wells with a 10% bleach solution.
Repeat step 2 to step 6 with a 10% bleach solution (see “Detailed procedures for cleaning the
sample block”
IMPORTANT!
Always use deionized water to rinse wells after cleaning with bleach or ethanol
solution.
9.
Use Smart Help if the contamination remains (see “Request technical support with Smart Help”
Detailed procedures for cleaning the sample block
IMPORTANT!
Use these cleaning procedures
only
in conjunction with the complete decontamination
procedure (see “Clean the sample block”
).
• Rinse the sample block with deionized water.
a.
Pipet a small volume of deionized water into each contaminated well.
b.
In each well, pipet the water up and down several times to rinse the well.
c.
Pipet the water to a waste beaker.
d.
Use a cotton swab to scrub inside of each contaminated well.
e.
Use a lint-free cloth to absorb the excess deionized water.
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