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Ruth,

APC makes a mini air conditioner on wheels. (http://www.apc.com Network
air 1000) There are other manufacturers out there but I think APC sells
worldwide. If you have a sink in your room for the condensate to drain
into and either a window or tile ceiling for the hot air to escape, a
unit like this may work for you. We use it to cool a cabinet full of
dual processor computers (7) in a 10x10 room. Without the unit, using
only house A/C the room sits at 100F. With the unit, we keep the room at
about 75F. It plugs into a normal US wall socket I am sure APC has one
that will work with your wall outlets.

The unit makes about as much noise as an argon laser. The unit was about
$800 US with shipping last year.

We are satisfied customers with no personal interest in APC.

Jon Ekman
Florida State University

On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 07:52, Empson R wrote:
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> Dear All
>
> I'd like some advice if possible ...
>
> We have a Bio Rad Radiance 2100 which we are really pleased with, we have
> had it nearly two years now. In the UK unlike USA, air conditioners are not
> very reliable and ours keeps breaking. Although we have a fan that ducts air
> from the back of the ICU out of the room I am very concerned that the
> cooling without the air conditioning will not be sufficient.
>
> Without the air con the room goes to around 22-24 C, (with the air con it
> stays around 19), 24C seems too high for safe running of the lasers so I am
> concerned about their life.
> We have an Argon - the one I am most worried about, and 2 diode lasers and
> Green He/Ne and Red.
>
> I am trying to get support from our Estates service to replace the unit.
>
> Any comments would be very useful
>
> Ruth
>
> Dr Ruth M. Empson
> Lecturer in Neuroscience
> School of Biological Sciences
> Royal Holloway University of London
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ran Evans [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 11 June 2003 22:16 PM
> > To:   [log in to unmask]
> > Subject:      Confocal purchase
> >
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> > I would appreciate opinions on a possible confocal purchase.  Our core
> > facility
> > has 5 flow cytometers and 1 Olympus FV500 confocal.  We have a very
> > limited
> > budget of approximately $110,000 to $120,000 to spend on a second confocal
> > microscope.  Does anyone have suggestions on what to look into?  Is there
> > very
> > much out there in this range?  I would prefer it to be as live-cell
> > friendly as
> > possible, but this is not absolutely necessary.  Please contact me on or
> > off-line with any suggestions.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > -Ran
> >
> > Randall Evans, Ph.D.
> > Flow Cytometry and Image Analysis Core Facility
> > MDAnderson Cancer Center
> > Houston, Tx  77030
> > (713)-723-8225
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