Leica M205 FA Leica EL6000 About the Instrument, Special features, Heat-absorbing filter

Leica EL6000 – About the Instrument

The Leica EL6000 compact light source is intended for biological routine and research work, including the examination of specimens from the human body for the purpose of gain- ing information.

•The Leica EL6000 compact light source is intended exclusively for

operating mercury short-arc lamps of type HXP-R120W/45C VIS from OSRAM in conjunc- tion with a suitable light guide for the instru- ment. Any other use of the instrument shall be considered noncompliant use.

Special features:

The Leica EL6000 compact light source has an automatic beam cover. This ensures that the light beam output of the instrument when the light guide is detached. This prevents the user from being harmed by the intense light beam generated by the instrument.

The Leica EL6000 compact light source has a built-in shutter. It can be operated at the instru- ment itself by means of a pushbutton or via a remote control input. The shutter is open when the "open" LED is illuminated.

The brightness can be varied in 5 increments (0% – 100%). For this purpose, a mechanical dimming unit that can be operated using a rotary switch on the front of the unit is installed in the device.

Heat-absorbing filter

When the cover is open, the holder for the heat filter can be accessed. Here, (hardened) heat- absorbing filters for protecting the light guide and various conversion filters with a diameter of 32 mm for adapting the spectrum to the application can be inserted.

The Leica EL6000 comes factory-equipped with a heat-absorbing filter.

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