Cassettes, Cassette Tray And Racks - GE AKTA avant User Manual

3.10.3

Cassettes, cassette tray and racks

Introduction
Fractions can be collected in deep well plates and in tubes of different sizes. A number
of cassettes and racks for different tubes and deep well plates are available. The cassettes
are placed on a rack with six cassette positions. The cassette type codes are scanned
by the cassette code reader to identify the cassette type.
Available cassettes, trays and
racks
The following cassettes and racks are available:
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For information on dimension requirements for tubes and deep well plates to be used
in the fraction collector, see Fraction collector tubes and bottles, on page 93 and Deep
well plates, on page 94 respectively.
Illustrations of built-in fraction
collector tray and racks
The illustrations below show the Cassette tray (for six cassettes), the Rack for 50 ml tubes
and the Rack for 250 ml bottles.
The fronts of the tray and the racks are marked with the GE monogram.
In the cassette tray, the cassette positions are marked 1 to 6.
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Cassette 3 ml tubes (for 40 tubes)
Cassette 5 ml tubes (for 40 tubes)
Cassette 8 ml tubes (for 24 tubes)
Cassette 15 ml tubes (for 15 tubes)
Cassette 50 ml tubes (for 6 tubes)
Cassette for deep well plate (24, 48, 96 wells)
Cassette tray (for six cassettes)
Rack for 50 ml tubes (for 55 tubes)
Rack for 250 ml bottles (for 18 bottles)
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