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Hello Hans,

We have/had very good experiences with the CoolLed, so I'd not hesitate
too much to go with it. Its only weakness is that it offers less intensity
then a typical (strong) metal-halide lamp. This may be a problem if you
use low NA low mag.oObjectives. For the 63x or 40x oil-immersion typically
used on a confocal this is not an issue.

Cheers   Gabor

Light Microscopy Centre
ETH Zurich, 
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Switzerland

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On 6/29/11 9:56 AM, "H. de Bont" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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>Hello All,
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>We are buying a new confocal/epi microscope.
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>And are interested in experience of users with the CoolLED system.
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>Do you recommend the CoolLED system over a metal halide lamp?
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>We want to use the system with epi fluorescence of live cells with
>Hoechst,
>GFP and Cy3 channels.
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>Thanks,
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>Hans de Bont
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