In our lab we typically do not use free hanging tips in stead we use tip boxes that we place on carriers.
I cannot find any such tip boxes in PLR. Am i looking in the wrong place or do need to build them my self?
If i need to build them my self then where is a good place to start?
the Tecan that Wilson originally developed the backend on had fixed tips, this may not have been tested. pick_up_tips and drop_tips are implemented on the backend though. And I see many tip racks in pylabrobot.resources.tecan.tip_racks. Are you able to use this?
(also: lots of things changed since someone last used a Tecan with PLR, so there may be some things we need to update. Please keep making posts so I can help :))
No i cannot use them on the deck spot that i want(MP_3Pos). This is the same in the EvoWare software, but there i go in an check the allowed on labware box, so that it can be placed on the position.
Unfortunelty i dont know how you would do this in PLR?
Could you explain a bit more? Is this on a carrier or a fixed position on the deck. I am not too familiar with Tecan 
Here is picture showing how allow a 1000ul LiHa tip box to be added to a carrier. This is a âMCA96 Carrier 4 posâ carrier but it is the same way that you would add to another carrier type.
Here is a picture of the error that i get in PLR:
I can see that i need to find a way to allow PlateCarrierSite to accept tips. In the EvoWare program a tip box is implied when placing tips on a PlateCarrierSite if the user enables it. I dont know if the same would be the case in PLR.
In that case, I donât think the âMCA96 Carrierâ is really a plate carrier (in PLR they only carry plates). Does it have a hole for the tips to go, and do the plate rests on the edges? Is there a physical part you have to move? How does this work? Would you be able to share a picture of the physical resource? What Iâm thinking is we should model these as just Carriers rathern than {Plate,Tip}Carrier.
No idea what this actually looks like in real life. But for Hamilton fixed deck positions we called âpedestalsâ not sure if this will help with naming or not
Here is a picture of how the deck looks IRL. You ca see that there is no MP_3Pos. That is because i wanted to use it as a reference for building the âMCA96 Carrier 4 posâ.
We typically do not use hanging tips as tip boxes are just much easier to move arround and thereby gives us more flexibility in our workflows. The tip boxes i want to place on the deck look like this:
Good point to model them as just Carriers as we use them for both tips and plates.
anything i can do to help with remodeling them as Carriers?
