PUTTING THE INSTRUMENT INTO OPERATIONCarl Zeiss Mounting Standard Components Axio Vert.A158 431030-7044-001 05/20123.1.12 Adjusting the HAL 100 IlluminatorCoarse Adjustment• Loosen the clamping screw (Fig. 3-21/2) andthen detach the operational halogen illuminator(Fig. 3-22/4) from the microscope stand.• Switch on the microscope. (See Section 1.1.)• Aim the light beam at a projection surface (wall)that is at least 3 m away.In so doing, be sure not to look intothe light exit of the illuminator.• Use ball-headed screwdriver SW 3 to set theadjusting screw (Fig. 3-22/1) until both lampfilament images are shown on the projectionsurface as sharply defined as possible.• Use the adjusting screws (Fig. 3-22/2 and 3) toalign the lamp filaments and their mirror imagein such a way to each other that the mirrorimage fills up the spaces of the lamp filaments(Fig. 3-22/5).Fine Adjustment• Reattach the microscope lamp to the microscope stand and fix it into position, using the clampingscrew.• Switch off the diffusion disk (Fig. 2-9/26) and remove the filter from the light path.• Use the ≤ 20x objective to focus on a mirror that has been put on and then go to a clean area of thespecimen.• Remove the eyepiece. Use the adjusting screws (Fig. 3-22/2 and 3) to center the lamp filaments andtheir mirror image in the pupil image.• Optimize the overlapping, using the adjusting screw (Fig. 3-22/1).• Switch on the diffusion disk and reactivate the filter.Fig. 3-22 Adjusting the HAL 100 Illuminator
