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A system of modular analyzers each adapted for independent operation and each possessing different operational characteristics adapted for particular applications. Such modular analyzers may be joined together with precise indexing means such that a single sample carousel may be accessed by fluid tr

A system of modular analyzers each adapted for independent operation and each possessing different operational characteristics adapted for particular applications. Such modular analyzers may be joined together with precise indexing means such that a single sample carousel may be accessed by fluid transfer probes from both of the analyzers to thus form a system which operates as a single analyzer of increased capacity and versatility.

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In a clinical chemistry analyzer system, comprising: a first modular analyzer including a sample carousel adapted to receive a plurality of samples, analyzing means for analyzing the samples and automated probe means for transferring samples from the sample carousel to the analyzing means; a second

In a clinical chemistry analyzer system, comprising: a first modular analyzer including a sample carousel adapted to receive a plurality of samples, analyzing means for analyzing the samples and automated probe means for transferring samples from the sample carousel to the analyzing means; a second modular analyzer including a second sample carousel adapted to receive a plurality of samples, an analyzing means in the second modular analyzer different from the analyzing means of the first modular analyzer for analyzing samples, and a second automated probe means for transferring samples from the second sample carousel to the analyzing means of the second modular analyzer, the improvement being: indexing and joining means for selectively precisely joining the first modular analyzer to the second modular analyzer and indexing the first modular analyzer to the second modular analyzer and indexing the first modular analyzer automated probe means with respect to the second modular analyzer sample carousel, and control means for synchronizing and controlling the first modular analyzer automated probe means and the second modular analyzer sample carousel such that the first modular analyzer automated probe means accesses samples received in and carried by the second modular analyzer sample carousel, the first automated probe means selectively transferring the accessed samples to the analyzing means of the first modular analyzer whereby the first independent modular analyzer and second independent modular analyzer selectively constitutes a single interdependent system.