What Are The Echo Liquid Handler Features; Touchless Fluid Transfers; Reliability; Ease Of Use - Labcyte Echo 525 User Manual

USER GUIDE | Echo® 525 Liquid Handler User Guide

What are the Echo Liquid Handler features?

Echo Liquid Handlers are well suited to transferring nanoliter or low microliter volumes of aqueous solutions for a wide variety of
applications.
Note: Echo 520 Liquid Handlers do no support aqueous solutions.
Echo Liquid Handler features that will be important to any organization include:

Touchless Fluid Transfers

Echo technology uses touchless fluid transfer. Nothing physically touches the fluid in the wells or the interior walls of the
microplate. Droplets are ejected using an ultrasound wave transmitted from below the source microplate. The ejected droplet is
directly transferred upward from the supply plate to the receiver.
Touchless fluid transfer provides the following benefits:
No physical contact eliminates potential for tip or pin-based cross-contamination
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Improved reliability
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Lower maintenance requirements
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Lower transfer costs
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Reduced waste
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Reliability

The Echo Liquid Handler has been designed for heavy duty-cycles and reliable operation. Compared to operating and maintaining
other liquid handling equipment, Echo technology offers the customer a simpler, trouble-free device.
Proactive control and monitoring of the systems reduce lost operational time or material if an error occurs:
Multiple sensors monitor the coupling fluid system.
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Compressed air and vacuum systems are monitored for correct supply and operation.
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Each of the moving mechanisms includes multiple sensors that define home positions and absolute limits, reducing the
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possibility of mechanical interference or misalignment.
When a problem is detected, any or all of the following actions may occur:
The coupling fluid pump immediately turns off (depending on the problem).
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Front and rear panel fault lamps and LCD messages notify the operator that a problem has occurred.
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ActiveX® events notify remote systems that are connected to the Echo Liquid Handler.
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Ease of Use

An Echo Liquid Handler is quickly ready for use.
Minimal operator training is required.
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User calibration or recalibration are not required.
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Preparation for liquid transfers requires little more than defining a transfer protocol and selecting the source and
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destination plates being used. Protocols or destination plates can be quickly defined by the operator.
Liquid transfer requires only a few clicks by the operator, using the Echo Liquid Handler software, which is included with
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each instrument.
The Echo Liquid Handler can be operated manually by a researcher or as part of a fully automated lab.
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The simple, two-step process includes creating a protocol and then running the fluid transfer protocol using the Echo Liquid
Handler software program. For more information, see

System Integration Friendly

The Echo Liquid Handler excels in its ease of integration into automated systems.
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Create a Liquid Transfer Protocol.
What are the Echo Liquid Handler features?
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