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To check the stage, slide down the hatch on the front of the microscope chamber. If it is hard to see, turn on the LED by rotating the white dial on top of the chamber clockwise. You will hear a click when the switch turns on, after which the dial increases the brightness of the light. The LED can also be switched on and off using the foot switch. If you turn the dial on and see no light, try pressing down the foot switch.

Raise the microscope nosepiece and lower the condenser

To avoid the possibility of damage to the objective lens during stage initialisation, raise the focus so the objective lens is far away from the stage. There are no focus knobs on the microscope stand itself but there are coarse and fine focus knobs on the STP8000 controller. The inner of the two focus knobs is the coarse focus.

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