Leica CM3050 S Manuel D’Utilisation

Instruction Manual V1.2 - 11/2006

Operation

5.3.5 Status display

Each individual parameter is displayed in a certain area of the display screen.

Digits 1 and 2

indicate sectioning stroke position:

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Sectioning stroke

(outside sectioning window)

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Retraction stroke

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Sectioning stroke

(inside sectioning window)

Digits 3 - 6

indicate coarse feed position:

• Rear limit position:

HOME

• Front limit position:

STOP

Indication of ‘malfunction’ or
‘handwheel locked’:
• Microtome plug loose,

implausible values etc.:

????

• Handwheel is locked:

LOCKED

Indication ‘LOCKED’ completely
overlays digits 3 through 16,
i.e. while ‘LOCKED’ is displayed, no
other parameters will be displayed
in digits 3 - 16 of the lower line.

• Further indications: see chapter 6.1

‘Error messages indicated in the
display screen’

Upper line

Lower line

Digits 7 - 16

indicate the following parameters:

• Refrigeration status:

Digit 15 = cryochamber
Digit 16 = specimen
Meaning of
refrigeration
symbols:

• Section thickness

(set value)

• Section counter

(actual value)

• Indication of total section thickness

(actual value)

• Preset counter

Digits 7 - 16:
Scroll via arrow buttons to display
individual parameters

Upper line:
In the menu (see chapter 5.3.4): indication of selected menu item.
Standard indication: Chamber temperature (instruments with specimen cooling: chamber and specimen temperature)

Instruments with chamber cooling only

Standard indication upper line:
Instruments with chamber and specimen cooling

Refrigeration OFF

Refrigeration ON

Defrosting active

Sectioning

stroke

Sectioning window

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Retraction stroke

1 0 1 1 1 2 1 3 1 4 1 5 1 6

C T - 3 0 ° C

O T - 3 5 ° C

H O M E

C T - 3 0 ° C

H O M E