Using The Mcl; Putting Sample Tubes In A - Beckman Coulter COULTER EPICS XL Getting Started

LEARNING THE BASICS
USING THE MCL (XL-MCL FLOW CYTOMETER ONLY)
2.3 USING THE MCL (XL-MCL FLOW CYTOMETER ONLY)
Carousels
The XL-MCL flow cytometer starter kit has:
Two carousels, each with 32 tube positions.
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A sheet of bar-code labels, numbered 01 to
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99, for you to use to identify the carousels.
Putting Sample Tubes in a Carousel
The orientation of a tube with a bar-code
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label does not matter. The MCL rotates the
tube to find the bar-code label.
Do not skip tube positions within a panel.
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The XL-MCL flow cytometer does not skip
a protocol in a panel when a carousel tube
position is empty. If you lose a sample,
replace it with a blank tube containing
sheath fluid.
You can skip a single-tube position to
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separate two panels. The system stops
analyzing carousel tubes when it finds two
consecutive empty tube positions or reaches
the last position on the carousel.
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TUBE
POSITION
NUMBER
7021063A
TUBE POSITION
BAR-CODE
LABEL
PN 4237238BA