Maintenance; Daily Maintenance; Startup And Standby Cycles; Automatic Cleaning - HORIBA ABX Micros 60 User Manual

ABX Micros

1. Maintenance

One of the principle factors contributing to accurate and reliable results is a well-maintained instru-
ment. The ABX Micros
providing that the operator is aware of its schedule. This section of the manual will describe the
daily and periodic maintenance procedures.

1.1. Daily Maintenance

These cleaning procedures are required daily to maintain optimum performance of your
cros 60.
Failure to perform any of these recommended cleaning procedures can result in de-
creased reliability of your system. It is important that you monitor your analyzer for the
types of specimens that may cause pre-mature cleaning other than routine.

1.1.1. Startup and Standby Cycles

At the beginning of each business day, a Startup cycle must be performed. This can be done either
automatically or or manually which ever the system has been set up for (See Section 5,
4.3. Choosing Startup
Running manually a Startup cycle
Press the «Startup» key of the front panel
At the end of each business day, a Standby cycle should be performed. Once the Standby cycle is
complete you may power off the instrument or leave it in the standby mode overnight.
Running manually a Startup cycle
Press the «Standby» key of the front panel
The Standby mode introduces MINICLEAN into the chambers for the enzymatic cleaning
of Protein build-up on the counting chambers and apertures. This Standby cycle is a very
important step in daily maintenance.

1.1.2. Automatic Cleaning

This Automatic cleaning cycle is automatically performed when the number of analysis cycles has
been reached to initiate the auto-clean cycle. This cleaning frequency cycle can be programmed by
the operator according to the workload of the Laboratory (See Section 5,
frequency , page 5-11).
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60 is designed to keep this maintenance automatically to a minimum
Cycle, page 5-11).
ABX Micros 60
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4.4. Setting Autocleaning