Instrument line for medical diagnostics

American LAbor
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Accustasis 1000, AS 1000
Accustasis 2000, AS 2000
CoaData 1000, CD 1000
CoaData 2000, CD 2000
CoaData 3000, CD 3000
CoaSystem
CoaScreener
CoaLab, Nycomatic, BFA
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New coagulation analyzers
Refurbished or used
Research analyzers
Pipettors
Printers

Service & FAQ
Accustasis 1000, AS 1000
Accustasis 2000, AS 2000
CoaData 1000, CD 1000
CoaData 2000, CD 2000
CoaData 3000, CD 3000
CoaSystem
CoaScreener
CoaLab, Nycomatic, BFA

If you have one of the above instruments and are no longer using it please contact us, we do sometimes buy units to refurbish and resell.

How to trouble shoot.

CoaLab, Nycomatic, BFA

GENERAL:
Appliances such as refrigerators, centrifuges, and other motorized appliances should NOT be on the same circuit with CoaLab, Nycomatic, BFA or other computerized equipment. We suggest that this analyzer be connected to a surge protected electrical circuit or a UPS device, to protect it’s sensitive electrical components.

INCONSISTENT RESULTS:
After run is complete remove cuvette rings and visually inspect samples for consistent volumes in each used cuvette. If the volumes are not the same there may be incorrect settings of the sample tube type, or the volume in the sample tube may be insufficient for the pipettor to obtain correct volume. Example just because a sample tube is the same length as a vaccu-tainer the sample plasma in a vaccu-tainer only goes about half the length of the tube and the analyzer knows to stop before dipping into the red blood cells. So if you are using a tube the length of a vaccu-tainer and only have 1 to 2 ml of sample this may not be enough. Check the levels of all reagents and patient samples then perform test again.

Perform a system cleaning change to a fresh bottle of washing solution, make up fresh controls and try again. If this fails to correct the problem contact us for a service call.

SYSTEM CRASHES:
The specific code telling what caused the crash is recorded in the file named ESERR.DAT this file is located on the computer hard drive C:. The directory is coalab\data. Exception: on a Nycomatic the directory will be nycomat\data or on a BFA the directory will be bfa\data. The last error will be located at the bottom of the file and will appear as illustrated below.

Example error data file:

Release CoaLab  V1.1 (2.26) from  Jun 11 1999
Controller COALAB HBA V1.00 / THAU RTX51 V3.20
System error -3: Timeline execution error

00 15 80 87 04 43 88 03 61 89 04 6C

Below you will find links to error code tables. I am not sure why but there are no error level 1 codes. Please look here first for a lesson on decoding the errors.

Please contact us for assistance in correcting these errors.