Selectra XL                          

A Random Access, Fully-Automated, "Walk Away" Chemistry Workstation with a throughput of up to 360 tests per hour (up to 450 tests per hour with ISE).

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The new Vitalab Selectra XL extends the excellent reputation of the Selectra family.  With thousands of Selectra installations all over the world, Vital Scientific has created a proven platform to run your tests in a convenient and cost effective way.  

The Selectra XL is an open system offering a wide range of testing, including Clinical Chemistry, Special Proteins, Drugs of Abuse, Therapeutic Drugs and Electrolytes.  You name it, the Vitalab Selectra XL does the job without compromising quality.  Having a throughput in the range of 400 tests per hour, the Vitalab Selectra XL is the ideal workstation as main system, back-up system or for special chemistries. Vital Scientific offers Vitalab® brand high quality reagents; a comprehensive test menu of chemitry reagents providing your laboratory with testing options you need. Click here for more information.

Throughput

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Sample system

Sample predilution

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Reaction disk

  • Semi-disposable rotor with 48 cuvettes. Path length 7 mm.
  • Minimum measuring volume 220µl.
  • Measuring temperature 37°C, controlled by Peltier elements.

Washing unit

  • Cuvette-washing with 4 x 500 µl of water. The unit is equipped with liquid sensors. Waste is separated into diluted and concentrated (sample/reagent mixture and optional ISE-unit) waste. Cuvettes are dried before use.

Light source

  • Quartz-iodine lamp 12V-20W.

Optics & Wavelength range

  • 2 optical units each with n 8 position filter wheel
  • Automatic wavelength selection by 8-position filter wheel (340, 376, 405, 436, 505, 546, 578 and 620 nm).
  • Other wavelengths available on request
  •  Half bandwidth 8 to 12 nm

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  • -0.1 to 3.0 Absorbance

Analytical modes

  • Kinetic measurement with linearity check.
  • Bichromatic end point measurement with or without bichromatic reagent blank and/or sample blank correction.
  • Two point measurement.
  • Graphic plot of all measuring points.
  • Automatic rerun with sample reduction.
  • Non-linear calibration curves

Ambient temperature

  • 15 - 32°C.
  • Maximum humidity 80%.

Measurement capabilities

(Single reagent mode)

  • Reagent Absorbance before sample addition.
  • Kinetic during 7 minutes after sample addition.
  • End Point (Bichromatic) 11.5 minutes after sample addition.
  • Kinetic can contain two points for two-point measurements

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  • Reagent Absorbance (bichromatic) before sample addition.
  • Kinetic 1 for 4.5 minutes after sample addition (can be used as sample blank for Kinetic 2).
  • Kinetic 2 for 4 minutes after reagent 2 addition.
  • Kinetic 1+2 for 8.5 minutes after sample addition.
  • Sample blank (bichromatic) before reagent 2
  • Endpoint (bichromatic) 4.5 minutes after sample addition or 11.5 minutes after sample addition
  • Kinetic 1, Kinetic 2 or Kinetic 1 + 2 can contain a minimum measuring time or two points for two-point   measurements.

Calculation modes

  • Prozone check for immunology tests.
  • Cut-off declaration.

Quality control

  • Up to 15 different controls can be defined, 3 per test.
  • Westgard rules.
  • Levey-Jennings plots.

Standards

  • CE, CB certificate, UL

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Dimensions

  • Floor Standing       117 x 115 x 77 cm      (W x H excl. Monitor x D)

Options

Bar code reader Hand held CCD bar code reader (can read all common barcodes) used for test requisition and reagent barcode identification
Concentrated waste  Separate waste container for concentrated waste
Computer  
(minimum requirements)
Pentium based - 64 MB RAM 
VGA Monitor 768x1024 pixels
Hard Disk: 1GB  Floppy: 3½" (1.44MB)
CD ROM drive
Windows 2000
2 Serial ports: 1 for analyser and 1 for host
1 USB
1 Printer port
Printer The application supports two printers simultaneously; one for patient reports and one for calibration and   system data. Most printers supported by Windows can be connected.
ISE unit

Na, K and Cl measurements.

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