Microlab
®
STAR Service Manual
5-2
5.2.1 Decontamination
Wipe exposed surfaces with desinfectant liquid.
5.2.2 Removing Tips or Needles
• Before Disassembling anything, ensure that there are no Tips or Needles
remaining on the Pipetting Channels.
• Assuming the Instrument is working, Tips or Needles may be ejected by starting
any Method which must have an initialization at the very beginning. The Method
may be aborted after Tip ejection.
or:
• By using the Service Software Menu Control Single command Send
command P#MD (where # is the Pipetting Channel Number). A minimum
initialization is provided by sending Single Commands P#YI and P#ZI prior to the
P#MD Command.
or:
• By using the Service Software Menu Control Movement/Sensors Pipetting
Channel Initializing each squeezer drive.
or:
• After Instrument has been switched off, turning the squeezer spindle by hand to
release the O-Ring coupling.
Attention: Tips or Needles must not pulled away from Channels by Hand as this may
cause damage to the O-Ring and the squeezer mechanism of Pipetting head.
5.2.3 Disconnect ML STAR Instrument
Switch off and unplug the Microlab
®
STAR Instrument. Disconnect it from the PC.
5.2.4 Remove all items on ML STAR Instrument
All Carriers, Tip Waste, Spillage Trays and loading trays
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. Pack the accessories in
the accessory boxes.
5.2.5 Remove Panels
Remove ML STAR instrument’s side panels.
On ML STAR IVD Instruments back cover must be removed as well.
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Microlab
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-STAR Instrument with Autoload Option only