Microplate Luminometer Installation and Commissioning
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❏ [Check instrument at startup]: Select this item if you want to
initialize the Microplate Luminometer automatically any time
the program is started. Otherwise, an initialization is per-
formed only after you select the measurement menu or click
the <Check instrument> button on this tab. Upon delivery of
the software, this item is not enabled.
❏ [Take background at startup]: Select this item if you want to
run a background measurement any time the program is
started.
❏ Confirm your entries by clicking <OK>. The [Instrument Op-
tions] dialog box is closed, the [Instrument] tab is active (Fig-
ure 3-9).
❏ Click <Check instrument> to establish communication be-
tween PC and luminometer. If this is not possible, an error
message appears and you are prompted to check the con-
nections and the communication port parameters. If an ini-
tialization is performed this is indicated on the status bar and
by the yellow LED lighting up on the luminometer, while the
instrument modules are being checked.
❏ Click <Read configuration>. Then the current instrument
configuration (with or without injector(s) is read in from the
Simplicity PC program.
You may carry out the following steps, if required:
❏ To run a background measurement, remove any light source
from the measurement chamber, close the loading cover and
click <Take Background>. While the background measure-
ment is on, the red LED lights up on the luminometer. The
measured background value is displayed and remain stored
until the next background measurement is performed. It is
also displayed in the measurement menu. Select [Subtract],
to subtract this value from the measured sample values.
