Six-Monthly Maintenance; Emptying The Waste Bottle - Siemens RAPIDLAB 248 Operator's Manual

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Six Monthly Maintenance
Equipment: As for daily/weekly/quarterly maintenance, plus Bottle
tubing kit (Cat. 673250).
Carry out daily/weekly/quarterly maintenance and:
1. Replace the bottle tubing.

Emptying the Waste Bottle

BIOHAZARD: see Appendix A, Protecting Yourself from Biohazards.
Equipment: Disinfectant or sodium hypochlorite.
The display prompts you to empty the waste bottle. You can choose how
often you want the prompt to appear (see Page 5-5, Setting the
Maintenance Prompts).
1. Stop the 248 system:
2. Remove the waste bottle.
3. Dispose of the waste in accordance with your laboratory guidelines.
4. The Wash bottle and the 7.3 buffer bottle from the Buffer Pack can
Figure 3-1. Separating Buffer Bottles
Ready
Lift probe to analyze
Empty waste bottle
syringe sample
#
press for menu
a. From Ready press # for menu, 2 for Maintenance and 5 for Stop
System.
a. Lift the front cover.
b. Carefully pull the waste bottle forwards, tilting the top slightly
away from you.
both be used as new waste bottles when they are empty.
a. Peel off the top label from the top righthand corner to expose the
waste label. To use the 7.3 buffer bottle separate the label at the
perforation. Slide the 6.8 buffer bottle off and discard.
or press
then press *
1 capillary
2 QC
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