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Hi Lai

Yes we have had that luck too...
Ask Andor to update (with a CD, not just downloading the file) the Olympus software which runs in the background of iQ. That solved it for us. Pity it took one year...

Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards
 
Sylvie
 
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Sylvie Le Guyader
Live Cell Imaging Unit
Dept of Biosciences and Nutrition
Karolinska Institutet
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> Subject: Problem with Olympus ZDC1
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> Dear Listers,
> 
>   We have an ongoing Olympus ZDC1 problem which has troubled us for nearly a
> month. I hope the list can help us identify the source of the problem and lead to a
> solution.
> 
>  We have an Andor Revolution spinning disk (Yokogawa) system connected to an
> Olympus IX81 inverted microscope stand with ZDC1 installed.  The system works
> fine until about 4 week ago, the ZDC failed during a routine time-lapse scan and
> cause error indicator flashing on the Olympus UCB controller. We have to switch
> off the UCB control box to erase the error flag.  Since then the ZDC kept failing
> under various conditions (listed below),
> 
> A.    We tested on oil and water objectives.
> B.    We tested on different chamber temperature:  37C and room T.
> C.   We tried different ZDC settings.
> D.   It seems the failure of ZDC happened at random time point. Sometime it
> failed after 5 minutes of the start of a time-lapse scan; sometime it runs OK for an
> overnight scan then failed in the morning.
> E.     We suspect it is caused by electronic interference with other equipment,
> so we grounded the UCB control box. We changed the cable coupling to put UCB
> on its own dedicated squid, but it didn't solve the problem.
> 
>   I wonder if any group with ZDC1 had experienced similar problem before, any
> suggestion are welcome.
> 
>  Best
> 
> Lai