Precautions;
Summary
For technicians, sales managers and users!
This chapter contains important precautions against life-threatening
events as well as warnings for the scanners and accessories.
In all cases, take care on your healthy and handle the scanner with
care, especially during movements, shipping and assembling or disassembling.
Contents
Handling of extension
cards and electronics devices
Important remark
· After
maintenance or
services and performed tests of the scanner are 100% finished, protective
ground connections and other safety regulations, related to hazardous voltages,
accessible conductive parts and dangerous to life parts have to be checked (again).
Requirements
Technical employees
Technicians are persons who have adequate knowledge in
the field of microscopy, scanning devices, fine mechanics, optics, controller
electronics technique and generally acknowledged rules of engineering as a
result of their education, training and experience.
Technicians are familiar with the relevant occupational
health and safety regulations, enabling the technician to move and to handle
the equipment (scanner, computer, etc.) for service purposes and repair
operations.
During the processing and execution of service and
repair actions the technician has to follow manufacturer regulations
respectively shall observe the applicable accident prevention regulations,
other safety regulations and the generally accepted safety and occupational
health ordinances.
The distributor’s service department is bound to teach
their technical employees global and local safety regulations and accident
prevention regulations at least once in every year.
Topics for training
Human health
·
Movement of (very) heavy equipments (P1000, PCON, iSaCS).
·
Handling and disposal of poisonous and/or caustic
chemicals (iSaCS).
·
Avoiding of electrical shocks.
·
Always use safety goggles during slide loading
adjustments.
·
Always pay attention to the safety labels in the
equipment, and act accordingly.
·
It is important to be aware, that the LASER beam may
harm the retina of your eye! Be extremely careful with the LASER beam during
adjustments.
·
The Flash pulse of the flashlight source may harm the
retina! Be extremely carefully while adjustments.
·
The fluorescent light source may destroy the retina of
your eye! Be extremely carefully while adjustments! See also: FL light source
·
Be cautious when gathering the possible glass shards
in the equipment; use recommended tools!
·
Do not put hands into the running equipment, because
very painfully finger squeezing may occur!
·
Do not lean into the equipment.
·
Insert only slides with specified dimensions.
·
Do not service or maintain the equipment while it is
under power.
·
Read and follow safety regulations of aggregates and
components, used in the equipment.
Equipment
functionality
·
Movement, transport and shipping of the equipment.
·
Dismounting and mounting of covers.
·
Handling of optical components.
·
Handling of mechanical components.
·
Handling of electronics devices and components.
·
Exchange of units and components.
·
Disassembling and
assembling of units.
·
Always check the functionality of the entire equipment
after service, maintain and repair procedures as well as after transport and
movements.
·
Insert only slides with specified dimensions.
·
Magazine and slide loading procedure (SCAN and
P250-type scanners).
·
Tray and slide loading procedure (MIDI-based
scanners).
·
Handling, setup and analyzing the preview of
SlideScanner.exe
·
Checking and analyzing the scan quality of the scanned
result with slide viewer.
See also: Following
paragraphs of this chapter, Tools and
requirements and cleaning optics. Further
safety regulations can be found at the description of the appropriate unit.
Please refer also to
adequate healthy rules and safety regulations of your country!
Never touch the surfaces of
mirrors, lenses, filters of the filter block or the CCD cover glass of the
camera with fingers. To clean such surfaces, use always the appropriate
materials and liquids only; take into account, that mirrors and lenses are
often surface coated!
· Further
information about cleaning of optics can be found in the chapter “Cleaning optics”.
·
Please use always safety goggles if the slide loading test is in progress and
you are looking closely at the loading procedure!
·
It may happen that a slide can
fly in peaces during the process, mainly if the adjustment is incorrect!
The electrostatic
discharge (ESD) is a very harmful occurrence in conjunction with electronic
devices; it may destroy the device (camera), the interface board or the entire
main board of the computer. Therefore, to avoid ESD, the following precautions
should be abode.
·
Remove the electrostatic protection bag from the
electronic equipment (extension card) only just before it will be implemented.
·
Before you are unpacking electronic units or interface
boards discharge yourself by touching with both hands, grounded, unpainted
metal parts, e.g. the housing of the computer with connected power cable for some seconds!
·
Electronic devices should be touched only on parts
that have a connection to ground (mountings, cover).
·
Before the computer housing will be opened unplug the
power cable from your computer.
·
The insertion of cards should be done uninterrupted
and with a minimal movement of your body. Electrostatic charge is produced if
different materials of the clothes are rubbing on each other!
·
Reconnect the power cable only if the entire housing
is mounted again.
Important
If the damage of devices, boards or the camera is the
result of ESD, the warranty of the destroyed unit is lost!
More information about ESD can be found:
· Electrostatic
discharge Wikipedia
· Prevention and control of ESD Copyright© Mini-Circuits® PDF, stored
Handling of
extension cards and electronics devices
The interface
cards should be touched only on the card mounting or, if the card will be inserted,
you can press the card into the slot on the edges shown with the green lines.
Very
important
In all cases, avoid touching
of electronic components on the board and the connector part for the PCI slot.
The FireWire IEEE
1394 and the USB 2.0 interface is a so-called “hot plug” interface; the
cable can be connected or disconnected to or from the computer or device
without switching off the power supply.
Nevertheless, hot plugging of cameras in regard to ESD is not
recommended!
If it’s unavoidable, abode at least the precautions, described in the
paragraph above “Electrostatic
discharge”.
To increase the ESD protection for the camera, please handle the camera in
the following sequence:
·
Connect the camera cable always first to the computer;
touch an unpainted part of the computer housing with connected power cable and
then plug the cable into the camera.
·
If the camera should be disconnected, touch the
computer housing first; unplug the cable from the camera and only then
disconnect the cable from the computer.
3DHISTECH iSaCS – Staining,
There are several chemical materials and fluids used during the staining,
washing and rinsing procedure; these are partially
· very poisonous and
· very caustic.
The hazardous
waste container contains hazardous fluids.
Some staining materials in the vials of the vial chain may contain poisonous
and /or caustic substances.
To avoid physical harms, the usage of protective gloves and goggles is
highly recommended.
Primary
protective clothes Secondary
protective clothes
· Protective gloves Protective cloth
· Protective goggles Protective mask
Slide scanner program and
service program
Attention: Do not mix the versions of SlideScanner.exe and
SlideScannerService.exe! Always use these programs with the same version number.
Otherwise the SlideScannerService.exe program could produce unwanted results
and SlideScanner.exe does not work correctly or even freeze!
Please refer also to: Service program and Setup “SlideScannerService.exe”
In adjustment
procedures are often parameters and values of the file
MicroscopeConfiguration.ini shown to find appropriate parameters easily and to
show the certain magnitude of the value.
- We know, that
these values are unique in each scanner!
These values can be used as starting value for the adjustment with the
service program, but never must be copied into the ini file of the scanner in front
of you without painstakingly checks, these values do not replace the adjustment
procedure!
Important
- Never use
example values without painstakingly checks!
Used in: PCON,
P250, SCAN and
The light source is used to illuminate the field of
view, if the fluorescent scan modus is selected.
Precautions:
Never look directly into the beam of the fluorescent
light source! The lamp emits also ultraviolet light with very high intensity.
To prevent your eyes from harm (damage) use always sun glasses with a high
filter factor of UV light if the fluorescent light source is switched on and
you are adjusting the beam mainly if the cover of the unit is removed.
·
Always shielding your eyes!
·
Always protect
exposed skin with clothes!
· For further precautions
please, refer to the manual for the fluorescent light source you are using!
See also: “X-Cite Series 120Q” and “Xcite120PC_UserGuide”
RISK GROUP 2 CAUTION
Possibly
hazardous optical radiation emitted from this product. Do not stare at the
output of the light engine. It is harmful to the eyes.
The brightness of this light source is higher than
most commercial lighting fixtures and is intended to couple directly into a
microscope or other bioanalytical instrument.
RISK GROUP 2 CAUTION
Possibly
hazardous ultra violet radiation emitted from this product. Do not stare at the
output of the light engine. It is harmful to the eyes.
UV emitted from this product. Avoid eye and skin exposure to unshielded
product.
Detailed information about features, precautions, warnings and technical
data can be found in the file “Lumencor_Spectra_LE_User_Manual.pdf”
Used in: P250,
SCAN and
The autocollimator is
used to find the correct filter position of the filter wheel in the turret unit.
Precautions
Never look into the LASER
beam of the autocollimator! The emitted LASER beam has often a power of about
0.01watts only but this is enough to damage the retina of the eye!
General precautions
·
Do not move the equipment manually by manpower.
·
Always use a
lifting device for movements.
·
Always
break the wheels of the scanner cart if movements are not in progress.
·
Do
not service or maintain the equipment while it is under power.
·
Do
not remove the cover while the equipment is under power.
·
Do
not lean into the equipment.
·
Do
not leave hanging cables in the equipment.
·
Do
not start scanning if the door of the equipment is open.
·
Always
pay attention to the safety labels in the equipment, and act accordingly.
·
Always
use safety goggles during loading adjustments.
·
Be
cautious when cleaning the syringe and the tray of the equipment.
·
Do
not look into the beam of the slide sensing laser and the adjusting laser.
·
Always
check the functionality after transporting the equipment.
·
Be
cautious not to touch your eyes after maintaining the syringe. Harm of oil can
occur.
·
Be
cautious when gathering the possible glass shards in the equipment.
·
Do
not look into the beam of the flash light source.
·
Do
not put hands into the equipment, because finger squeezing or crushing can
occur.
Important
The stability of the stack rail spacer is not designed
for any movements or the transport of the scanner; it is not a handle!
· For any movements of
the scanner, please use always the handles, mounted in the corners from
beneath.
See also: “Move the Pannoramic SCAN”
The tray holder is
an adjusted component of the
· This part of the scanner is not situated to use for
any movements or transport.
If the adjusted position of the tray holder is modified, the tray
loading procedure and the slide loading procedure has to be adjusted again!
· For movements, please hold the scanner always on the base plate from
beneath!
If the slide
loader needs to be lifted up manually, please touch the mechanical mounting
of the “Rod
- If
the slide loader mechanics is deformed, the slides can not be loaded or
removed safely!
Never execute
the commands Home1,2 for the tray loader with inserted tray!
If
a try is inserted and the commands Home1,2 most be executed for the tray
loader, remove the tray first by moving the tray backward with the service
program and the button +19200 steps or by powering off the power supply and
turning the tray loader gear wheel by hand (from beneath). If the tray is fully
removed from the tray leader, the command Home2 for the tray loader stepper
motor can be executed safely.
To take always care on the focus pin, set the focus position
to +800 steps if the X-Y stage should be moved with the service program!
This
way, the focus pin is as far as possible away from the specimen holder; otherwise,
the focus pin will be battered during X-Y-stage movements, mainly if collision
with the specimen holder occurs. A well battered focus pin ensures trouble
during focusing of many samples!
Set the focus position to +800 steps
Set
the tray loader motor to the position -1920 steps, so the slide loader and the
support plate is spread and does not collide with the X-Y-stage while it is
moving!
Move
the X-Y stage by at least 25 000 steps in +X-direction! This way, the slide tightener
is not connected with the release plate and the focus pin movement can take
effect. Set the focus position; the set the X-stage to any desired position.
Slide door
Please do not pull the door handle
to open the door!
The mechanical construction of the slide door allows the shift of the
door handle to the left or to the right respectively, it is a “one finger
action”.
Watch video: “Handle the slide door”
· 
Please shift the lower part
of the door handle to the left to open the door and shift the lower part of the
door handle to the right to close the door.
· The construction
of the door mechanics keeps the door closed automatically, therefore a
resistance can be felt if the door will be opened.
If the slide door is opened during the scan process is in progress, the
scan process will be stopped until the door is closed again, to avoid finger
squeezing.