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title: "Early Poseidon tests showed excessive bending that was mitigated with set screws and a thicker base."
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# Early Poseidon tests showed excessive bending that was mitigated with set screws and a thicker base.

## Content

Early Poseidon tests showed excessive bending that was mitigated with set screws and a thicker base.

## Metadata

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## Connections (2)

### Principles of open source bioinstrumentation applied to the poseidon syringe pump system

- ID: `version:principles-of-open-source-bioinstrumentation-applied-to-the-poseidon-syringe-pump-system--2019-08-27-scientific-reports`
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- Direction: `incoming`
- URL: <https://sina.bio/publication/principles-of-open-source-bioinstrumentation-applied-to-the-poseidon-sy-eefa1cd0>

This publication contains this grounded claim.

> Initial tests of the poseidon syringe pump showed excessive bending of the syringe pump body which we mitigated by reinforcing the body with set screws and a thicker base.

Source: 2019-08-27-scientific-reports.pdf — <https://sina.bio/source/2019-08-27-scientific-reports-pdf>

### Reinforcing the printed pump body and adding set screws eliminated bending observed during early Poseidon testing.

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- URL: <https://sina.bio/result/reinforcing-the-printed-pump-body-and-adding-set-screws-eliminated-bend-91cf38e7>

This claim supports this result.