Blowout on tip pickup

Hamilton (Venus)
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Hi,

We are starting to use the Grenova washer to wash our Hamilton tips. And while the washing seems to work, we end up having a bit of water volume in the tip.
Is there a way with Venus (classical or firmware commands) to aspirate air before tip pickup and do a blowout once the tips are picked up to removed any liquid left in it ?

Thanks,

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If I recall correctly, to do this one needs enable a special tip pickup property on the tip labware.

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Then you would pick up your tips and then call a dispense blowout step.

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Thank you,

I will try this today. Do you know if there’s a way to choose the volume ?
And where did you find that documentation ?

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The labware properties (screenshot) are in the Programmers Manual. As for the knowledge of how this works, I am not sure if this info is documented anywhere particular but I asked Hamilton a similar question like 7 years ago when I was battling residual volume in tips from tip reuse.

Would love for a Hamilton rep to correct me if I am wrong on how this works

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Thank you so much,

I forgot that part of the programmer’s manual and it is indeed very useful.

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Also u should reach out to Grenova. As they can update the program for u as we do not see anything like this.

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