Leica SP8 X

Last modified by efazeli@helsinki_fi on 2024/01/24 07:25

Known issues and possible solutions:

Sample not visible through oculars

Symptom: No fluorescent nor bright field light via oculars.

Cause: When switching from detectors to oculars, the light path does not turn correctly every time.

Solution: On the touch panel, (1) select the Objective tab and (2) switch Port to "Eyepieces 100 %"

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Frequency: Has happened about 5 times (by 23.8.2019). Seems to be happening more and more often.

SOLVED: pieces of coverslip glass and other dirt cleaned from inside the microscope!