Design and Construction of Medical Electrophoresis Power Pack for Genotype Machine

This study deals with the Design and Construction of medical Electrophoresis Power Pack for Genotype Machine. The study adopted the Research and Development (R and D) Design using the Cyclic Model Approach. The population this study tends to cover is the entire society including the male and female. The construction was carried out on a Veroboard/stripboard while the casing of the project was done with 22cm x 15cm x 5.5cm knock-out box and a buffer solution tank of 15cm x 13.5cm x 3.5cm using soldering iron and soldering lead and the material used in the Design and Construction of this Electrophoresis Machine include: two resistors (220ohms/5w), capacitor (68uf/400v), input and output voltmeter, 13A fuse, Diodes (1N4007), switches, green and red LEDs, dotted Veroboard, jumper wire, flexible AV wire, and a buffer solution tank. The principal findings or results of this Research include that; when it was subjected to an extreme voltage of 220-240v during testing, it worked perfectly well without breakdown; the cost of building this project was low, which figuratively was N6,870.00 compared to other imported electrophoresis machine in the market sold at N15,000.00 and above; the project was simple in term of its design, easy to operate and carry out maintenance work on. Finally, the successful construction and testing of this project has demonstrated that more of this foreign apparatus can be properly modernized to reduce size and cost of purchase. Some recommendations were that Hospitals should introduce Electrophoresis Machine that can be automated, that is, the machine that contains a thermostat for auto-regulation; Hospitals should introduce Electrophoresis Machine that has an alarm for job completion indication; Government should empower youths in the field of Electronics for the production of more digital Electrophoresis machine for genotype testing.