Startup wash

The daily startup wash rinses the probe lines, reaction cuvettes and dilution cuvettes.

Location of Wash Solutions

Cuvette Wash and Conditioner Usage

Set up of daily washes

To perform the startup wash

1. At the Operation Panel, select Wash.

2. Ensure that the 10 ml tube at CTT (1) position #51 contains DI water.

TIP

By choosing CTT position #50 for WASH 2 and CTT position #51 for WASH 3, you only need to refill the CTT container once.

3. Ensure that the bottle at RTT1 (2) and RTT2 (3) position #50 contains DI water.

NOTE

At your laboratory’s discretion, you may use other positions for the washes on each of the trays, but you must change the entries for the alternate positions in the appropriate fields on the WASH Set window.

4. At the WASH Set window:

Help on the Wash Set window

1. Select WASH3.

2. Select 1 for Cycles.

3. Enter 51 in the CTT cup position 1st time field. Select the container type for a 10 ml tube.

4. Enter 50 in the RTT1 and RTT2 bottle position 1st time field. Select the container type for a 70 ml reagent container.   

5. Select Execute.