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Aspirate Shift –
This enables the user to adjust the actual aspiration location from the
taught position selected for aspiration. This enables the user to go to a
‘non-standard’ location, or to move in other than well-spacing
increments. For plates, the “Z Shift” value is the distance above the
well bottom that aspiration will occur, with a maximum value of the
plate’s well depth. For named points, it is the distance above or below
that taught point’s height.
Do Tip Touch / Tip Touch Shift –
This enables the user to do a ‘tip touch’ to clean a droplet off the tip,
and to specify where that tip-touch will be relative to the actual
aspiration location. Any shift done in the ‘Aspirate Shift’ selection
above will affect this ‘aspirate location’. This will cause the tip to
touch twice, on opposite sides of the well or vessel.
Aspirate Volumes (table) –
This graphic shows an image of the plate type selected for this step,
and enables the user to enter distinct volumes for each well in the plate.
(Important: be sure to pres <ENTER> after entering the last volume
into any well location, as it will not be saved if you don’t!). As a
convenience, you may enter a value in the first element of any row or
column, then click on the row/column number to set every well in that
line to that value.
Liquid Level Detect –
Units equipped with the Liquid Level Sensing option allow the user to
check the box “Liquid Level Detect” box, which will cause the pipette
tip to seek the surface of the liquid in the well or vessel being
aspirated. If this is checked, a text box labeled “Max. Depth (mm)” is
shown. The user should enter the maximum depth of the tip below the