Agilent Technologies BioCel 1200 Bedienungsanleitung

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BioCel System

User Guide

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Letter to our Customers

Dear Customer,

The Agilent Technologies acquisition of Velocity11 resulted in the following

changes:

•Creation of Agilent Technologies Automation Solutions, formerly Velocity11

•Renaming of some Velocity11 products

•New Customer Service and Technical Support contact information

•New website address for product information

Please make a note of the following changes as they impact this user guide.

Velocity11 product name changes

New contact information

Documentation feedback: [email protected]

Technical Support: 1.800.979.4811 or +1.408.345.8011

[email protected]

Customer Service: 1.866.428.9811 or +1.408.345.8356

[email protected]

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euroservice.aut[email protected]

Web: www.agilent.com/lifesciences/automation

Velocity11 product name Changes to …

Access2 Automated Microplate

Loader

Automated Centrifuge Loader

Element Automation System BioCel 900 System

IWorks Device Driver Programming

Interface

VWorks Device Driver Interface

PlatePierce Seal Piercing Station Microplate Seal Piercer

VCode Barcode Print and Apply

Station

Microplate Barcode Labeler

Velocity11 Robot 3- Axis Robot

VHooks Integration Interface VWorks Hooks Interface

VPrep Pipetting System Vertical Pipetting Station

VSpin Microplate Centrifuge Microplate Centrifuge

VStack Labware Stacker Labware Stacker

Agilent Technologies

Letter to our Customers

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Table of Contents

BioCel User Guide

Content

Chapter 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

Who should read this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

What this guide covers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

What is new in this version of the user guide. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Accessing Velocity11 user guides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Reporting problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Safety information about the BioCel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Chapter 2. BioCel overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Basic description. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

BioCel specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

BioCel 1200 external features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

BioCel 1600 and 1800 external features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Utilities connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Power panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

Hardware control components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Power system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Air system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Vacuum system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Computers and networking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Adjusting the keyboard shelf . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Docking the mobile device table to the BioCel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

BioCel devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

BioCel accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Chapter 3. Preparing for a run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Workflow for preparing the BioCel for a Run. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Turning on the BioCel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Performing a BioCel ready-state check . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Preparing devices and accessories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Placing and removing plate hotel labware . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Setting up a VSpin counterweight plate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Aligning and testing auxiliary bar code readers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Setting up the PlateHub . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Performing pre-run checks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

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Chapter 4. Performing a run. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Pausing and stopping a run. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Comparing interlock and emergency circuits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Monitoring the status of a run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Cleaning up after a run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Turning Off the BioCel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Chapter 5. Diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

About Diagnostics software. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

Using Bio I/O Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71

Using Robot Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

About fine-tuning robot teachpoints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79

Fine-tuning a robot teachpoint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Chapter 6. Maintenance and troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Routine maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Resolving robot errors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Overriding the safety interlock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Resolving plate placing errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Resolving lid removal problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Recovering from a power outage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Chapter 1: Introduction

BioCel User Guide

Introduction 1

This chapter contains the following topics:

❑“Who should read this guide” on page 2

❑“What this guide covers” on page 3

❑“What is new in this version of the user guide” on page 4

❑“Accessing Velocity11 user guides” on page 5

❑“Reporting problems” on page 7

❑“Safety information about the BioCel” on page 8

Chapter 1: Introduction

BioCel User Guide

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