• Introduction
• How to do Patch Clamp Experiments
• A Guided Tour of the Front and Rear Panels
  • Front Panel
    • Top Row
    • Middle Row
    • Bottom Row
  • Back Panel
    • Expansion Slots
    • BNC Sockets and Associated Switches
    • Other Connectors
• Circuit Operation
  • The Optical Headstage
  • Membrane Capacitance Measurement
  • Current Clamping Improvements
• Detailed Description of Operation
  • General Facilities
  • Mode Control Switches
  • Leak Subtraction
  • Blow Control
  • Noise and Other Metered Measurements
  • Command Voltage Generation
  • Output Gain and Filtering
  • Capacitance and Resistance Compensation
  • Membrane Capacitance Measurement
• References

Written by Martin Thomas, between April 1996 and March 1997

This manual is copyright Ó Cairn Research Ltd. All rights reserved. However, individual researchers are welcome to make copies for their own or their colleagues’ personal use. Information contained here can be freely quoted for non-commercial purposes so long as appropriate acknowledgement is given.

Please note that the optical headstage is the subject of a patent application, and the name "Optopatch" is being registered as a trademark.

Manual last updated 20th March 1997.

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