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Control Options Control Cube
The weighted wheels connect to rotary optical encoders ensuring excellent ‘hand-eye’ motion control. The wheel tensions can even be altered to suit your preferred feel. The Control Cube provides several functions at your fingertips providing useful and powerful motion control.
The weighted wheels connect to rotary optical encoders ensuring excellent ‘hand-eye’ motion control. The wheel tensions can even be altered to suit your preferred feel. The Control Cube provides several functions at your fingertips providing useful and powerful motion control.
Approach on/off: This function converts the direction of movement from X or Z to the ‘Approach Angle’. This approach angle is needed for penetrating slices without lateral motion causing cell or tissue damage. An encoder built into the manipulator detects the headstage angle and the speed and step size of the horizontal & vertical motors are adjusted automatically so that the probe or pipette approaches at an even angle. And it is all done in realtime in firmware so there is no need for fiddly dipswitches or programming.
Speed setting: This function allows you to select at which speed the manipulator can move. And you have an almost infinite choice of speeds available in the LinLab software.
Home In/Home out: These functions allow you to confidently retract and reinsert your probe into your sample. An offset function is available to prevent longer pipettes from crashing.
Step: The step size can be configured to your requirements and is particularly useful to penetrate the membrane for making sharp electrode recordings.
Memory positions: Allows you to set and recall up to 50 preset positions.
