Chapter 12

Running samples

5 Mix the sample by vortexing.
6 Place the sample tube in the sample tube holder.
Make sure that the sample tube is uncapped.

⏺ Placing a regular sample tube
Place a regular sample tube in the regular sample tube
position at the front of the sample tube holder.

Micro collection
tube holder
Regular sample
tube holder

⏺ Placing a micro collection tube
Place the micro collection tube in the micro collection tube
position at the back of the sample tube holder.

7 Click

(Start) in the status area.

Alternatively, you can press the manual analysis start switch on the instrument.
The sample tube holder retracts into the analyzer and aspiration begins. During acquisition, the status indicator
LED blinks green.
When aspiration finishes, the sample tube holder is automatically ejected.

Note:
• If there is less than 50 GB of available space on the hard disk drive, a warning dialog box will be
displayed at the start of measurement.
• You can check that measurement has been completed using the following method.
- If you are running the sample for a workitem, the [Status] column of the workitem in the worklist
displays [Measured], indicating the acquisition is complete.
- The instrument status indicated by the measurement status LED/lower left corner of the IPU screen is
lit green.

8 Remove the sample tube.
Note:
If you measured the sample for a workitem making changes on existing settings of the subset panel for
optimization, and you want to apply the new settings, you can overwrite the subset panel information by
clicking
(Save Subset Panel Master) in the worklist commands.
For more details, see the following:
(➤P.122 "Chapter 10: 10.19 Updating the subset panel master")

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