Microscopy With Ds-L4 - Nikon DS-L4 Instructions Manual

Chapter
4

Microscopy with DS-L4

This chapter describes the microscopy operation procedures for DS-L4, using bright-field microscopy with Ni-E (Focusing
Nosepiece System) microscope as an example.
The following example assumes that the following devices are attached to the Ni-E microscope.
 DS-L4 Microscope Camera Control Unit (with camera head connected)
 NI-TT-E Motorized Quadrocular Tilting Tube
 NI-RPZ-E Motorized DSC Zooming Port for Quadrocular Tube (with the above camera head connected to the camera
port)
 NI-N7-E Motorized Septuple Nosepiece
(with configuration completed for the attached objectives)
 NI-ND-E Motorized ND Filter
 NI-CUD-E Motorized Universal Condenser Dry
(with configuration completed for the attached condenser cassette)
 NI-S-E Motorized XY Stage
 NI-ERG NI Ergo Controller, or NI-SJ Joystick for Motorized Stage
Preparation
Turn on the power on the microscope main unit
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and the motorized parts.
(1) Turn on each connected motorized part (except DS-L4) by
pressing the power switch to the "|" position.
(The power LED will light up on each device. There is no
specific order for turning on the motorized accessory
devices.)
(2) Turn on control box A by pressing its power switch to the "|"
position.
(The power LED on the front of the main body, control box A,
and contact arm will light up.)
Initialization is performed on the microscope main body and the
motorized parts.
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Power LED
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