Calibrating The Diti Rack Shelves For The Roma - tecan M1000 Operating Manual Addendum

Calibrating the
DiTi rack
shelves for the
RoMa
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1 Select a carrier from the list box icon located under the Current Location
field. Shelf Loc 1 through Shelf Loc 8 should be calibrated for the RoMa using
the NAT software.
2 Center the DiTi rack in the Shelf location being calibrated.
3 Close the Safety door.
4 Select Travel with the RoMa to the Location.
5 Select a Travel increment of 1, 10, 100, with 1 being the smallest travel
increment and 100 being the largest travel increment.
The RoMa gripper arms should be just touching on the surface of the DiTi rack
shelf (Z adjustment) and centered (X adjustment) on both sides of the rack.
– Use the "<" or ">" buttons beside X/Y to move the RoMa in the X direction.
– Use the "^" or "v" buttons beside X/Y to move the RoMa in the Y direction.
– Use the "^" or "v" buttons under Z to move the RoMa in the Z direction.
– Once the RoMa gripper arms are close to the surface, select a target
increment of 1 to adjust the gripper arms as close to the target as
possible.
– Once the RoMa gripper pins are touching the DiTi rack, move the gripper
arms 10 steps (Y adjustment) toward the front of the instrument.
– Once the RoMa is positioned, select Save RoMa Calibration.
– For Shelf location 1 only: Once the RoMa gripper pins have been centered
on both sides of the DiTi rack, move to the left 20 steps (X adjustment).
Select Save RoMa Calibration.
6 The position should be verified. Select Travel Home to home the RoMa. Next,
select Travel with the RoMa to the Location. The RoMa returns to the new
position. If the position is incorrect, repeat steps 2 through 5. If the position is
correct, select Travel Home.
7 Once the X, Y, and Z direction are saved for one Shelf location, then repeat
the steps 1 through 6 for each remaining Shelf location to be calibrated.
RoMa gripper arms
should be just
touching the surface
of the DiTi shelf and
gripper pins 10
steps from the DiTi
rack.
m1000™ Operating Manual Addendum, 392813, en, V1.1