Owner manual

60MEA-SG 120MEA-SG
The60-or120MEASignalGeneratorisusedforsettingupanexperimentwithsampledatafortraining,
controlling,andtroubleshootingpurposes.
Pleaseinsertthesignalgenerator(orientation:youcanreadthe“ON”and“12”ontheswitch)andtest
yoursystemwiththisarticialdataandmakeyourselfcomfortablewiththesoftwaresettingsbeforestarting
anexperimentwithbiologicalsamples.
Youcanndtheinstructionsforthesignalgeneratorsinitsbag,ontheprovidedCD(Manuals/MEA_Signal_
Generator_Manual.pdf)oronlineatwww.multichannelsystems.com/downloads/documentation.
Whenworkingwithbiologicalsamples,pleaseinserttheMEAsincorrectorientation.
Important:MEAsarenotsymmetrical!StandardMEAswithonebiginternalreferenceelectrodeshouldbe
placedwiththereferenceelectrodetotheleftsideintheheadstage(pleaseseethepicture).Otherwise,the
MEAlayoutwillnotmatchwiththepinlayoutofthechannelmapinthedataacquisitionprogramsfrom
MCS.FortheorientationofspecialMEAs,forexample60-6wellMEAs,pleasereadtherespectivedatasheet.
YoucanndinstructionsforthehandlingoftheMEAsontheprovidedCD(Manuals/MEA_Manual.pdf)
oronline.DatasheetsforeachMEAtypeareavailableonlineatwww.multichannelsystems.com/products/
microelectrode-arrays.
Test of the System and Preparation for Experiment
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GND-socketin
MEA2100-HS