Has any one used the 60mL aluminum reservoir lids?

Hamilton (Venus)
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Hi all,

Has any one used the 60mL aluminum reservoir lids?
https://www.hamiltoncompany.com/consumables/aluminum-reservoir-lids

Where do you store the lid after removal? Is there a holder/adaptor for the lid when you are pipetting? Or just have a dummy 60mL reservoir to store the lid?

Thanks!

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Haven’t used them and based on the description it looks like 1 channel picks it up and removes it before placing/holding it somewhere? Anyone else have experience with them?

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There is no holder/adapter for the lid. You would just use a dummy/unused reservoir to park it as @bowlineknot suggested.

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Hi @bowlineknot

I am using them on my assays to prevent evaporation.

In my assay I have 5 RGT-60 throughs and I have setup one of the other throughs as a parking position. It works great.

If you need any help, just ask.

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Thanks for the use case info! I was thinking of using them for a light sensitive reagent in combination with the black reservior option.

Do you clean your lids in-between uses or regular schedule?

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We cover ethanol with these lids so we do not expect any cleaning to be necessary. However, we enforce a policy on the lab that everything should be clean as possible.

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Hey Guys,

im using a carrier of empty reagent containers for parking purposes.

Im struggling with teaching the lid position correctly, the Z-axis is off by approx. 5mm.

Is the standard adjust location method with a probe the right approach?
In the .lay file everything seems to be in the right place.

Im using a tip pickup command to pick up the lid, is this the intended way?

Maybe one of you has some experience regarding this.

Thanks for any suggestions.
Cem

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Hi @Cem96

Don’t forget you need to install the definition also, otherwise the definition might be there, but not the instruction for the device to recognize it as a tip type. That’s very very important.

Teaching is done by using the teaching needles and then navigate to the top of the gripper point with the teaching needle. From that point on know where X and Y are, but you need to get to Z. Sure you can do this too with th teaching needle to a degree, but I did it by just executing pickups untill it looked fine. That wa 5 minutes of extra work :slight_smile:

Good luck!

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Thanks for your quick answer :slight_smile: , I’ll try it tomorrow and give some feedback here.

Update: It works now :slight_smile: teaching x/y with the probe and doing z via Tip pickups did the trick.

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