Weekly Maintenance - Molecular Devices SkanStacker 300 User Manual

Maintenance

Weekly Maintenance

Perform maintenance once a week or after use of a contaminated solution in
instrument to decontaminate system as well as clean probes.
Step 1 Perform Daily Maintenance to rinse system.
Step 2 Fill a reservoir bottle with 2% bleach solution or other decontami-
nant solution (20–70% ETOH or an alkali solution of 5–10% NaOH
are acceptable).
Step 3 Connect reservoir bottle to instrument.
Replace Rinse reservoir bottle with bottle filled with decontami-
nate solution.
Connect tubing from reservoir bottle to Rinse port and pressure
tubing to pressure port.
Verify waste tubing is connected to vacuum port and vacuum
pump.
Step 4 Insert a clean microplate into the left magazine.
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CAUTION: Consult chemical
resistance chart to verify that
decontaminant solution will not
harm materials used in the
design of the washer. Solution
that should be avoided: most
acids, acetone, anilin, benzene,
phosphoric acid, sulfuric acid,
xylene, toulene, styrene, and
pyridine.
!! IMPORTANT: Perform Daily
Maintenance before running a
decontaminant solution through
instrument to rinse out all buffer
products.
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