eCL8000

Maintenance
Guidance
CONTENTS

1 Routine Maintenance

2 Site Maintenance

13 Case Study

1
PART 01
Routine Maintenance
--For end users
 Daily
Maintenance
Clean S/R Probe and Aspiration Probe

Dirt on the S/R probe and aspiration probe may cause contamination and carryover, and affect results. Clean this
part
to prevent contamination.
Recommended Frequency: Everyday
Operator time: Approximately 5 minutes.
Precautions: Wear appropriate protective gloves and be careful not to damage the
probe;
All power switches must be OFF.
Materials Required
Clean Gauze obtain locally
Distilled or Deionized Water -------
70% Alcohol -------

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 Daily
Maintenance
Procedure:
Clean S/R Probe and Aspiration Probe
 1 Turn off all power switches.
 2 Move the probes to an area allowing easy operation(Move out the area of the cleaning cells)
 3 Wipe the external surface of the probe with an alcohol-soaked gauze. Then wipe the probe with a gauze
soaked in distilled or deionized water.
 4 Switch on the device and use it after normal startup.

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 Weekly Maintenance

1.Clean Reaction Tray

Liquid leakage on the reaction tray may result in adhesion among assay cups, so it is necessary to clean
this component on a regular basis.

Recommended Frequency: Every week

Operator time: Approximately 10 minutes.
Precautions: Wear proper protective gloves;
All power switches must be OFF.
Materials Required
Clean Gauze obtain locally
Distilled or Deionized Water -------
70% Alcohol -------
Cotton Swab -------

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 Weekly Maintenance
Procedure:
Clean Reaction Tray
 1 Power off the device.
 2 Remove the protective cover of reaction tray.
 3 Use cotton swabs dipped with distilled water or deionized water to wipe assay cup holes of the reaction tray
one by one.
 4 Wipe the surface of reaction tray with gauze soaked in alcohol; then wipe the surface again with gauze soaked
in distilled water or deionized water.
 5 Put the reaction tray back in the original position.
 6 Switch on the device.

Step 3 Step 4
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 Weekly Maintenance

2.Clean the cleaning pool

There are a cleaning cell used to flush the reagent/sample probe and a cleaning cell used to flush the aspiration probe.
Dirt in the cleaning cells may result in residue. In order to prevent contamination, the cleaning cells should be
cleaned weekly.

Recommended Frequency: Every week Approximately

Operator time: 3 minutes.
Precautions: Wear proper protective gloves; It is forbidden to use alcohol to wipe;
All power switches must be OFF.

Materials Required
Clean Gauze obtain locally
Distilled or Deionized Water -------
Cotton Swab -------

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 Weekly Maintenance
Procedure:
Clean the Cleaning Cells

 1 Power off the device.

 2 Move away the robotic arm of each probe.
 3 Use cotton swabs dipped with distilled water or deionized water to wipe the cleaning
 4cells.
Switch on the device.

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 Weekly Maintenance

3. Measuring Cell Maintenance

Contamination in the measuring system may reduce the accuracy and precision of sample tests or even block
the measuring channel. In order to keep the measuring liquid channel clean and maintain the performance of
the measuring cell, the measuring cell should be cleaned at least once two weeks or 2500~3000 tests.

Recommended Frequency: Every two weeks

Operator time: Approximately 1 minutes.
Analyzer time: Approximately 15 minutes.
Precautions: Wear proper protective gloves.

Materials Required
Measuring cell maintenance Buffer -------

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 Weekly Maintenance

Procedure:
Measuring Cell Maintenance

 1 Remove the Auffer from the system reagent cartridge and put measuring cell maintenance buffer
 2 Click [Maintenance] - [Maintenance Instructions] - [Measuring cell maintenance]. It takes 15 minutes for
the
performance to completed.
 3 Replace the measuring cell maintenance buffer with Auffer.
 4 Do the measuring cell preparation for 5 times as the instructions.
 5 Complete the performance of the maintenance process.

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 Annual
Maintenance
4.Clean the special reagent cartridge
Recommended Frequency: 12 months
Operator time: Approximately 10 minutes.
Materials Required
Distilled Water or Deionized Water -------
Cotton Swab -------

Procedure:
 1 Take out all the immunoreagents. Wipe the sides and the bottom of the cartridge with a cotton swab dipped in
distilled water or deionized
 2 Wipe the drain of the cartridge.

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PART 02
Site Maintenance
--For engineers
 Quarterly
Maintenance
1. Replace the pinch valve hoses(pinch tube)

Liquid leakage may be caused if old pinch valve hoses are used, further affecting the accuracy of pipetting
volume. Therefore, the hoses should be replaced at least once every three months.

Recommended Frequency: Every 3 months

Operator time: Approximately 10 minutes.
Precautions: Wear proper protective gloves.

Materials Required
180mm pinch tube 2 pcs

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 Quarterly
Maintenance
Procedure:
Replace the pinch valve hoses

 1 Prepare two new 180mm pinch tube.

 2 Switch off the device. Open the right door, remove the two old pinch tubes.

Unplug these joints

 3 Use new pinch tube to connect the upper and lower two joints respectively.
 4 Clamp the pinch tube to the inner side of the corresponding pinch valve.
 5 Switch on the device. Go to [Application] – [Advanced] – [HD maintain]. Click [Replacement] to reset the
count.

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 Annual
Maintenance
2.Clean the channel and Add lubricating oil
Recommended Frequency: 12 months
Operator time: Approximately 10 minutes.
Materials Required
Clean Gauze obtain locally
Lubricating oil -------
Cotton Swab -------
Procedure:
 1 Switch off the device. Use clean gauze or cotton swabs to remove dirt from the lubricating oil on the
track.
 2 Wipe clean and apply the new oil.
 3 Slowly move the 2D and 3D arms to evenly distribute the oil.

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 Annual
Maintenance
3.Clean the optocoupler
Recommended Frequency: 12 months
Operator time: Approximately 10 minutes.
Materials Required
Cotton Swab -------
Procedure:
 1 Use clean cotton swab to clean the dust on the optocoupler. (3 optocouplers on 2D arms and 3D arms(X axis and
Y axis); 10 optocouplers on special reagent cartridge; 1 optocoupler on reaction tray)

10 on cartridge 1 on reaction tray 3 on 2D arms and 3D arms (X axis and Y

axis)
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PART 03
Case Study
QC frequency not enough

We need do each items every two to three times per week.

QC is to monitor both machine and items, not only machine.
For keeping the QC sample, if it’s liquid QC, we can just keep them in refrigerator, 2~8 ℃ in 28days,
For lyophilized QC powder, after re-dissolve, aliquot them in to EP tube and -20℃ in 28days.
Measuring cell maintenance

Internal
structure of
measuring cell

Measuring cell is the most important part of machine, it must be in a good state, clean and healthy.
In order to make it clean and healthy, we must doing the measuring cell maintenance every two weeks or
over 2,000 tests.
Packages

Maintenance/Service package
Maintenance package
Service package
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