Agilent Technologies Bravo Platform User Manual page 51

2 Setting up the Bravo Platform
Setting teachpoints
C AU T I O N
Verifying teachpoints for pin tools and fixed-tip heads
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To verify the teachpoint accuracy:
For disposable-tip heads, make sure you use a full set of tips to verify each
teachpoint.
1
Open Bravo Diagnostics, and click the Jog/Teach tab.
2
Click Move to safe height at current X/Y position to move the head up so that you
have enough room to remove the single pipette tip from the head barrel.
3
Place a tip box full of tips on the tip box location that you are verifying. Make sure
the tip box is sitting level on the platepad.
4
Perform a tips-on operation as follows to ensure the tips are loaded properly:
a
Click the Processes tab.
b
In the Command to Execute list, select Tips On.
c
Click Execute Command. The head presses down to install the tips, and then
moves back up.
5
Remove the empty tip box from the deck location.
6
In the Jog/Teach tab, click Move. The head moves to the teachpoint you set in
"Setting the first teachpoint" on page
quite in the correct position.
7
Use the Jog Axes controls to move the head A1 tip to the correct position (directly
over the crosshairs with paper-thin clearance).
8
When you are finished, click Teach. Verify the information in the message box
before you click OK.
9
Repeat step 6 to step 8
10
To save the changes, click the Profiles tab and click Update this profile.
After setting and saving teachpoints, you should verify each teachpoint.
To verify a teachpoint:
1
In the Jog/Teach tab, set the Location field to the location you want to check.
2
Click Approach.
3
Use the following table to decide your next step:
If the A1 needle is ...
Above the crosshairs at the
approach height
Not above the crosshairs or
appears to be closer to the deck
than the approach height
36. You might notice that the A1 tip is not
for each deck location.
Then ...
a
Click Move to move the A1 needle to
the teachpoint.
b
Visually check the position. The tip of
the needle should be directly over the
crosshairs with a clearance of about
the thickness of a sheet of paper. (If
it is not, repeat
teachpoint" on page
There is a problem with the teachpoint.
Repeat "Setting the first teachpoint" on
page 36.
"Setting the first
36.)
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