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Electrovalves
The electro valves are an optional device
which opens the flow only on the selected tubes. The
set of 9 valves are mounted into their housing. The
RSC-160 system can drive up to 9 valves (1 set of
valves) while the RSC-200 system can drive up to 36
valves (4 sets of valves). The valves used for RSC-160
& RSC-200 are normally closed pinch valves. The
valves can be commanded by front panel of the
controller or the software. All valves can be
programmed to open or close synchronously with a tube
position change. More than one valve can be opened at
a time, or valves can be opened or closed
independently of the head rotation. For example to
pre-establish the flow in the next tube to be tested a
few seconds before rotation.
Motorized
syringes MS-4 and MS-8
The
MS-4 and MS-8 modules, has 4 and 8 individually
motorized syringes respectively. It means that the
starts and stops of every syringe can be controlled
individually.
The MS-4 system consist of a control unit and one
syringe module with 4 syringes.
The MS-8 system consist of a control unit and two
identical syringe modules each with 4 syringes. The
system can operate up to 8 syringes.
It
is therefore possible to upgrade the MS-4 system to
MS-8 simply by adding a second syringe module.
The system is delivered with 5ml
microsyringes. With these volumes the flow from
0.023ml/minute to 0.38ml/minute can be obtaine.
Syringe
Rack and Rack Holder
Two syringe racks are available: for
10ml syringes (standard), 18mm holes
for 50ml syringes (on request), 32mm holes
The
Heads
One
of the important features of RSC heads is an easy
exchange of solution delivering tubing, this
eliminates necessity of washing and risks of residual
contaminations. Every RSC-200 system is
delivered with one head.
The straight head was designed to carry standard
capillary glass, OD 1.00mm. This head gives the
following advantages:
Capillaries can protrude, giving better approach to a
cell.
The number of capillaries installed is up to the user.
Capillaries take minimum space in the cuvette.
Easy exchange of capillaries.
Easy
attachment to the flexible tubing
Stimulator
The RSC-200 is equipped with one stimulator
channel (+/-10V, 1mV and 1ms resolution). This
stimulation is programmed by the same software as the
solution change.
TTL
On the rear panel of the instrument 4 x TTL ,
independently programmable channels are available. As
for the stimulation channel, the TTL pulses are
programmed by the same software as the solution
change.
Software
The RSC-200 instrument are
delivered with a Windows 3.1 software (Windows 95/98
compatible). The software permits the following
operations:
manual positioning of the head
manual opening of the valves
resting Vhold setting
edit and download of a sequence where the following
parameters can be exchanged at each step:
- duration of stay in the active position for a given
tube number
- speed
of solution change (head rotation)
- choice
of electrovalves to be opened/motorized syringes to
start (if applicable)
- stimulation pulse level ( range: +/-10V)
- TTL
signal activation (4 lines of signal available)
- triggering of other auxiliary instruments
Manipulator
The RSC-200 motor can
be mounted, on any 3-axis manual manipulator,
providing that the motor will have a mechanically
stable fixation. We recommend 3 models of
manipulators; UM-3C (with rotation mechanism) (You),
M-152 (Narishige), MM-33 (Marzhauser) with direct
mounting (no adaptor required - better mechanical
link).
These manipulators may be delivered with magnetic
stands. Another very good solution for the
micromanipulator fixture is the use of the SPT-Tower
System.
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