Zeiss 880 Installation guide

Zeiss 880
Training Notes
Zen 2.3

Turn on
Main Power
Switch
Do you need the Argon
Laser
458, 488, or 514 nm lines?
Yes
Turn on the Systems PC
Switch
Turn on the HXP 120V Lamp
Turn on the Components
Switch.
Turn on the PC and log into
your account.
Start Zeiss Zen via Elan
Tracking Software.
No
Create
scanning
configuration
880 Start-Up Sequence
Set up sample on microscope.
Go to the Acquisition Tab and
initiate the warm up
procedure for the laser.
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Logging into the 780
•Log into the computer with your UCHC or
CAM credentials; be sure you are logging
into the proper domain.
•Double click on the Zen icon, the one
labeled with “AUT-Zeiss LSM 880” or
similar text.
The idea elan tracking and billing software will
initialize after clicking on the Zen icon.
•Enter your UCHC email. Once it has been
recognized, it will bypass the password
requirement and proceed to the session
confirmation window.

Starting Zen with idea elan
•Select your scheduled appointment
and/or click the login button as directed
by the software.
•Confirm your appointment and the Zen
software will be initialized.

Starting Zen 2.3
Select Start System from the Zen 2012 login
window. This will start up the hardware and
software.
Image Processing is for using the system in an
offline mode and this will ignore all the
hardware components.

Introducing the Zen Workspace
The Zen workspace is designed in a
tabular fashion allowing you to
step you through initially looking
at your specimen via the Oculars
tab, in the control panel, to
acquiring images via the Acquire
tab. The remaining tabs add off-
line Processing and
Maintenance options.
Panels can be moved around
to customize the workspace.

Introducing the Zen workspace
Your imaging configuration and your
work space configuration can be
stored separately.
In addition, your imaging configuration
and acquisition parameters can easily be
retrieved from the Reuse function when
you have a previously saved image loaded
in the workspace.

Getting Light to the Oculars
Locate Tab
1. Click on the objective icon to access the list
of possible objectives. Be sure to note the
immersion type; air, oil or water. Please do
not change from oil to air/dry or from
water to oil and oil to water without
cleaning your specimen first.
2. Select your light source from:
Transmitted ON
Transmitted OFF
DAPI
FITC
Rhodamine
3. Be sure to turn the Reflected Light “Off”
when you are finished looking at your
specimen.
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Getting all the tools
Acquisition Tab
In order to view all the options available via the software,
be sure to go to:
1. View>Show All (global)
2. Select >Show all Tools.
Make sure to do this each time you use the software
otherwise the required features, like the lasers, will not
be accessible to you.
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Open/close the
submenu with the arrow.
Click the arrow to detach/attach panel.

Acquisition Tab
1. Experiment Manager
The manager allows you to save your scan configuration
settings for your experiment and reload the settings for
a quick start. This method does not record the
acquisition parameters.
2. Scan Control Tool Bar
•AF (Find Focus) – computer determines focus based
on contrast settings.
•Set Exposure – the computer automatically
calculates the gain and black level settings.
•Live – initiates a fast scan regardless of the scan
speed and continuously scans until Stop is selected.
•Continuous – continuously scans according to the
selected scan speed until Stop is selected.
•Snap – performs a single scan according to the
selected scan speed.
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