Pipetteren kan een zeer repetitieve taak zijn wat resulteert in vermoeidheid en onnauwkeurige resultaten. Het verminderen van vermoeidheid door een betere pipetteer ergonomie is van cruciaal belang, waar op het laboratorium nauwkeurigheid, precisie en veiligheid zijn vereist. Om deze reden heeft Rainin het LTS LiteTouch-systeem ontwikkeld met een verminderde tip afwerpkracht.
Improved ergonomics leads to better accuracy
Pipetting is a highly repetitive activity that can quickly manifest fatigue, inaccuracy, improper and unsafe fluid aspiration and transfer. Reducing manual fatigue through improved pipetting ergonomics is viewed as critically important wherever laboratory accuracy, precision and safety are required. Less fatigue translates into significantly higher pipetting accuracy over longer durations.
Rainin to the rescue
For many years Rainin has been working to reduce the high forces found in conventional pipetting and developed the world’s first electronic pipette designed to eliminate plunger force. The company later developed the LTS LiteTouch System to dramatically reduce the forces required to eject used tips. Rainin’s LTS design with its cylindrical shaft and tip, provides a reliable and consistent seal without excessive force. LTS thin-wall tips have a small, well-defined seal and a positive stop, which lets you know exactly when the seal is made eliminating any need to jam or pound the shaft into the tip.
Perfect seal
The LTS shaft fits exactly into the matching LTS tip and is stopped by a small shelf inside the tip. No matter how much force might be used to mount the tip, ejection requires just 0.6 kg, which is a fraction of the force required by some traditional pipettes and tips. All this plus a perfect seal to ensure total reliability.
Multichannel mastery
LTS is ideal for multichannel work due to its sealing by cylindrical cross-section, small seal area and internal positive-stop shelf. It provides faster tip loading and absolutely consistent sample aspiration across all channels even when used by a new operator. Compare this to other manufacturers’ multichannel designs where tips require hand-tightening or rocking in order to fit them securely onto the nozzles.
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