MPI-MZ1 - Zeiss 2photon upright - startup & shutdown

How to switch off the Zeiss 2photon upright

Before you do anything, please check the LMF booking database at the END(!) of your imaging session to see whether you are the last user or not!!!

If you are not the last user...

- Please close the software and log off the Windows user account

If you are the last user...

• Turn down the tube current of the argon laser (black knob) and turn the key into "0" position
• Wait about 5 minutes for the laser to cool down before switching off the unit completely!

• Save your data.
• Close Software.
• Shift your data to your fileserver and delete older data from the harddrive.
• Shut down the computer.

• Switch the Coherent 2photon laser back to "Standby"

• Switch off the Metal halide lamp

• Clean the objectives you used. All of them! Properly!

• After 5 minutes or when the cooling has switched off, switch off the main switch on the Argon laser controller

• Switch off the Components and the Systems/PC button one after the other

• Switch off the main switch