Chapter 3 Individual Operations
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Individual
Operations
23.2
Controlling the Microscope
The microscope can be controlled from DS-L3.
See “Chapter 5 Individual Operations” in “DS-L3 Microscope Operation” Instruction Manual for the details of usage.
(1) What in Ni-E can be controlled by DS-L3
Device Operation available on DS-L3
Required setting
(Reference in DS-L3
Instruction Manual)
ON/OFF and lamp brightness control of
dia-illumination
Adjustment of DIA field diaphragm
Retraction and restoration
*2
of elevating
section
*1
None
Parfocal correction Focus position
(See Chapter 6, “5.1.4 Configuring
the Parfocal Correction Function
(Auto Link Focus)”.)
ECLIPSE Ni-E main body
Output of capture trigger signal from
DSC connector
Information on camera connected
to DSC connector (See Chapter
6, “3.1 Configuring the
Connection of Digital Camera”.)
NI-TT-E motorized quadrocular tilting tube Optical path switching None
NI-RPZ-E motorized DSC zooming port for
quadrocular tube
Adjustment of zoom magnification None
NI-N7-E motorized septuple nosepiece
NI-ND6-E motorized sextuple DIC nosepiece
Switching of objective
NI-N7-I intelligent septuple nosepiece
NI-ND6-I intelligent sextuple DIC nosepiece
Address detection for nosepiece in
optical path
Information on attached
objectives
(See chapter 6, “2.1 Configuring
the Objective Information”.)
NI-FLT6-E motorized epi-fluorescence cube
turret
*3
Switching of filter cube, opening/closing
of internal shutter
NI-FLT6-I intelligent epi-fluorescence cube
turret
*3
Address detection for turret in optical
path
Information about the attached
filter cube (See Chapter 6, “2.4
Configuring the Excitation
Filter/Barrier Filter Information”.)
NI-EXW-E motorized excitation filter wheel Switching of excitation filter
NI-BAW-E motorized barrier filter wheel Switching of barrier filter
Information of attached filters
(See Chapter 6 “2.4 Configuring
the Excitation Filter/Barrier Filter
Information”.)
C-HGFIE motorized HG precentered fiber
illuminator
Switching built-in ND filters,
opening/closing the built-in shutter
None
NI-ND-E motorized ND filter wheel Adjustment of ND filter transmittance None
NI-SH-E motorized shutter
*4
Opening/closing of EPI/DIA/AUX
motorized shutter
None
*5
NI-CUD-E motorized universal condenser dry Switching of module
Adjustment of DIA aperture diaphragm
Information of attached
condenser modules (See Chapter
6, “2.2 Configuring the
Condenser Module Information”.)
NI-S-E motorized XY stage Movement to specimen replacement
position
*2
None
*1: The microscope's elevating section lowers.
*2: DS-L3 cannot be used to move the elevating section or the motorized XY stage to an arbitrary position.
*3: Motorized/intelligent epi-fluorescence cube turret may be used in a single layer, or in two overlapping layers.
*4: Two motorized shutters can be operated.
*5: For details on changing the use of the motorized shutter to AUX (other than EPI/DIA), see DS-L3 Chapter 6 “3.2
Configuring the Connection of Motorized Shutter”.