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Whatever you do, be aware that air circulation and AC unit vibration can
add significant noise to your images, even with high quality floating
tables. Consider the location, air circulation patterns, sound and
other vibrations caused by your new unit.
Cheers,
Carl
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 7:52 AM
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Subject: Air conditioning in a confocal room - advice please !
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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
EGHAM
Surrey
TW20 0EX
Tel 01784 414264
Digital voicemail 07092 076899
Fax 01784 434326
* To find out more please visit the lab homepage at
http://web.rhul.ac.uk/Biological-Sciences/empson/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ran Evans [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 June 2003 22:16 PM
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> Subject: Confocal purchase
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> Search the CONFOCAL archive at
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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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