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XXPRESS
USER MANUAL - 1.1
• Place the xxplate onto the slides ensuring that it correctly located
so that the slides engage into all three holes on either side of the
xxplate, see Figure 15.
• When correctly located close the door by pushing on the front of it
until it latches shut.
• Once the experiment has been started by touching the forward
arrow on the RUN screen then the xxpress system will run a
number of checks on the plate. These are listed in an information
window that pops up in the middle of the display. These include
the recognition of the plate to make sure it is the right type and
positioned correctly in the unit. The recognition of the plate also
enables accurate fluorescence measurement.
• The unit also clamps the plate in situ so that it can control the
heating and cooling precisely. The clamping of the plate can be
recognised by the whirring of the motors that drive the clamps.
Once all the checks are done the experiment will start and a
results screen will be presented. Figure 16 shows the early stages
of a run, the display graph shows the level of fluorescence against
the cycle count.
Figure 16