Bioscreen C Microbiology Reader User's Manual
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A halogen lamp produces light which then passes through the chopper wheel. The light path is turned 90
degrees by a mirror. Then the light passes through the filter wheel. The interference filters are selected with
the PC software. Filtered light moves through an optical fiber to the lens assembly in the measurement
compartment, below the Honeycomb microplates. The light passes through the bottom of each well and
results are collected by the detector. The detector is on a retractable arm which moves into the right places
above the plate.
The measuring device is moved along the Y-axis while the incubator tray with the microplate is moved along
the X-axis. This enables rapid measurement of all wells in the microplate.
Figure 3 The optical system.
2.3 Software
The BioScreener
®
software is designed to run Bioscreen C experiments. BioScreener SW is a combination of
the proven functions of the previous softwares used with Bioscreen C.
BioScreener stores all settings and results from the experiment in a .bsm file. Results can be exported to
common data files such as xls or csv for graph generation and analysis with another software of your choice.
Please remember to save the data on a local hard drive, do not use network disks. You can always
transfer the measurement files to a network disk after the experiment is completed. This way your experiment
won’t be interrupted by possible network errors.
2.4 Honeycomb
®
Microplates
Bioscreen C uses unique 10x10-well Honeycomb microplates with lids. These plates are especially designed
to give unmatched temperature distribution between the samples and also to minimize evaporation of the
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