What do these products do in this instrument?
Air-Displacement Pipetting Pumps: Disposable-Tip Workstation Liquid Handling
Provide aspiration and dispensing drive at air-displacement stations, coordinated with tip pickup/disposal, motion and liquid programs. Platform scheduling retains the correspondence among channels, consumables and target vessels.
SMTP serves disposable-tip air-displacement architectures, with the pump displacing an air column. Tip sealing, liquid type, immersion position and platform motion jointly determine received volume.
Coordinate air-displacement drive with tips and motion
Air-displacement pipetting pumps move liquid in tips through air-column displacement. Sealing after pickup, tip specification, immersion and platform motion all contribute to aspiration and dispensing. Describe tip-based operations separately from fixed wetted tubing, identifying source well, receiving well and consumable state for each step.
Develop pipetting sequences for actual liquids and receiving actions
Match aspiration speed, waits, air gaps and dispensing mode to the specific liquid and container. Low remaining volume, foam, droplets and post-tip-change state may affect reception. Schedule tip changes according to contamination-control requirements; when discarding liquid or recovering nucleic-acid eluate, verify destination together with sample identity.
Translate actual branch conditions into configuration requirements
| Condition | To confirm |
|---|---|
| Tips and sealing | Provide tip specifications, pickup/ejection method and sealing checks after pickup. |
| Liquid and position | Record liquid type, minimum remaining volume, immersion depth and receiving position. |
| Results by well | Check received volume, empty wells or residual liquid, and tip-change and well records. |
Compare product configurations by the roles on this page
| Product | Configuration option | Conditions to verify |
|---|---|---|
| SMTP air-displacement pipetting pump | Air displacement with disposable tips | Validate tip sealing, liquid type and motion together |
Confirm product roles in actual operation
Validate concurrency, restart after interruption and record traceability to prevent sample misassignment or duplicate dosing.
Does completed pump movement confirm that the target well received the specified volume?
Also check tip sealing, air aspiration, well position and dispensing state, and measure actual reception. The drive-complete signal can assess the operation only together with these records.
Connectable modules are not automatically plug-and-play. Recovery actions must match the current liquid and sample state.