Chapter 8: Maintenance 171
Decontaminating the Fluidics
Perform overall system fluidics cleaning once a month or more frequently if you
are running high volumes of samples stained with propidium iodide (PI), acridine
orange, or thiazole orange. You need a spare reservoir for this procedure. See
Appendix A, Supplies and Replacement Parts.
1 Remove the sheath reservoir.
See Filling the Sheath Reservoir on page 56.
2 Disconnect the sheath filter tubing from the SALINE FILTER port.
3 Install a spare reservoir containing 1–2 L of cleaning solution.
See page 169 for options.
4 Connect the sheath tubing (white) from the spare reservoir to the SALINE
FILTER port.
Figure 8-1 Bypassing the sheath filter
saline filter port
sheath tubing
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