Open SyntaxColoring opened 3 years ago
Not a bug
For the non-filter tips, you can extend the volume range even further. The p300 pipette tips can actually hold about 440 ul before the liquid contacts the pipette. The p20 pipette tips hold about 70 ul. So there's a lot of room to allow for volume above the recommended maximum (assuming the pipette piston could accommodate it).
Overview
Officially, Opentrons 200 µL filter tips can only hold 200 µL. If you aspirate any more, you risk the liquid touching the filter.
However, our Applications Engineering and Science teams sometimes find themselves wanting to break past this limit. Depending on liquid viscosity, flow rate, and gantry speed, they've found that those tips can actually hold up to ~235 µL.
To use that extra capacity, they have to deliberately load the tip rack wrongly as an
opentrons_96_tiprack_300ul
instead of anopentrons_96_filtertiprack_200ul
. This is a hacky workaround, and it makes things confusing by presenting the wrong labware in the deck map in the Opentrons App. We should provide a real way to do it.Acceptance criteria
apiLevel
version bump.Possible implementations
aspirate()
gains a parameter likeignore_tip_maximum_volume: bool = False
?transfer()
gain atip_maximum_value_override: Optional[float] = None
parameter, or something?tip_rack_200ul.maximum_volume = 235
?