Operating The 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer; Battery Usage And Maintenance; Charging The Battery; When The Battery Is Charged - 3M LM1 User Manual

OPERATING THE 3M CLEAN‑TRACE LUMINOMETER

Battery usage and maintenance

• A 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer has an internal rechargeable lithium ion battery that must be charged to use a 3M
Clean-Trace Luminometer.

Charging the battery

• Select the charger adapter that is appropriate for power in your country.
• Connect the charger to a 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer.
• Connect the charger to a power outlet.
• The battery becomes fully charged in approximately 2 hours.
• To monitor the charge status, turn on the 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer. A lightning bolt icon appears in the battery
charge level.

When the battery is charged

• Disconnect the charger from the power outlet.
• Unplug the charger from the 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer.

Using the battery level indicator

• The battery level indicator is located in the upper right corner of the screen.
• When a 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer is on, the indicator shows the remaining battery level.
• In Figure 1, the indicator shows the battery is fully charged
• As the battery charge decreases, the blue segment of the indicator becomes smaller.
• When the battery level is less than 10%, the indicator becomes red, showing the battery should be recharged.
• When the battery level is less than 5%, the 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer automatically shuts down.

Managing the battery

• In normal usage, the battery provides up to eight hours of charge capacity.
• As the battery ages, it will provide less than eight hours of charge capacity.
• The battery must be charged when the indicator is red, indicating less than 10% charge capacity.
• The battery does not need to be fully discharged before recharging.
• When storing a 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer for more than a month, the battery level should be at 50% charge. Do
not store a 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer with a fully discharged battery because the battery may lose the ability to be
recharged. Do not store a 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer with a fully charged battery because it may lose the ability to
recharge to full power.
• Battery replacement is recommended after two years of normal use. For battery replacement, the 3M Clean-Trace
Luminometer must be sent to a 3M Service Center.

Switching the Power on

Before switching on the 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer, check the chamber to ensure it is empty.
1. Press and hold the gray on/off button
confirm the power on process has started, then the 3M logo Lockup appears and repeats several times.
2. The Welcome screen displays instructions for installing the 3M Clean-Trace Hygiene Management Software on
your computer using the software installation wizard provided on the segment of memory in the 3M Clean-Trace
Luminometer that appears on your computer as a flash drive.
• To prevent this display from appearing in the future, tap the Do not display again checkbox.
3. The screen goes black for a few seconds, then the Diagnostic Check screen appears. During the diagnostic check, a
progress bar is visible. Tap [Continue] when it's no longer grayed out.
4. The 3M Clean-Trace Luminometer attempts to synchronize with a computer.
• Refer to the Synchronizing the 3M Clean‑Trace Luminometer with the Computer Database section in this User
Manual for more information.
• To skip the synchronize, tap [Skip Sync].
5. The log in screen appears. Refer to the Logging in on the 3M Clean‑Trace Luminometer section of this User Manual
for instructions.
located below the cursor control buttons. The red 3M logo appears to
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Figure 1