Maintaining Your Analyzer
10-2
10.2 General Guidelines
Maintenance Period Content of Maintenance
If you are to use this analyzer 24 hours a day, be sure to perform
the “E-Z cleanser cleaning” procedure everyday.
Everyday
Run the QC program everyday. See Chapter 7 Using Quality
Control Programs for details.
Every three days If you are to use this analyzer 24 hours a day, be sure to perform
the “Probe cleanser cleaning” procedure every three days.
Every Week If you shut down your analyzer every day and follow the specified
shutdown procedure to do that, you need to perform the “Probe
cleanser cleaning” procedure every week.
Every Month You should use the supplied probe localizer to calibrate the
position of the probe to that of the probe wipe. The analysis result
is sensitive to their alignment.
When you think the baths might be contaminated, perform the
“Clean the baths” procedure.
When the analyzed whole blood samples add up to 300 or
prediluted samples add up to 150, the analyzer will remind you to
perform the “Probe cleanser cleaning” procedure.
When the analyzed whole blood samples add up to 2,000 or
prediluted samples add up to 4,000, the analyzer will remind you to
perform the “Clean wipe block” procedure.
When this analyzer is not to be used for two weeks, be sure to
perform the “Prepare to ship” procedure to empty and wash the
fluidic lines and then wipe the analyzer dry and wrap it up for
storage.
To obtain reliable analysis results, this analyzer needs to work in a
normal status. Be sure to run the “System Test” items regularly to
check the status of this analyzer.
As needed
When this analyzer gives alarms for clogging, you can perform the
“Flush Apertures” or “Zap Apertures” procedure, or press
[FLUSH] to unclog the apertures.
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