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This has been an interesting thread. To take the question one step
further... have any of you measured the impact of thermal drift
throughout your systems? I'm interested especially in the impact on
the stand itself, the objective, the stage, the camera mount, etc.
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At 10:10 AM 6/29/2011, you wrote:
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>To clarify, I am hoping to find out how much heat is put out by the
>microscopes, not power used (which is an approximation) or what temp
>the room should be at. As we all know gas lasers pump out thousands
>of BTU (between 4k and 6k/hour) mercury sources pump out between 1k
>and 2k BTU. These are the reasons we need to spend so much on air
>handling for scope rooms. Equally all the old
>computers/monitors/hardware all produced buckets of heat... Nowadays
>with all diode lasers, all diode light sources, LCD displays,
>efficient scan heads etc the amount of heat produced by microscopes
>has gone down enormously. The numbers from vendors are very
>conservative, and are probably not actually measured.... so does
>anyone have any real numbers?
>S
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>Simon C. Watkins Ph.D
>Professor and Vice Chair Dept of Cell Biology
>Professor Immunology
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>University of Pittsburgh
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>In my experience the ideal room temperature for the Microscope room
>is about 72F. Our systems never failed due to heat generation in the
>room. Also, I have to mention that the argon-ion laser installed in
>2001 still working in the Biorad system without any trouble. Of
>course the laser power went down, but still works. I believe that
>the temperature maintenance in the microscope room helps a lot in
>the operation of the high-end microscope systems.
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>Hi all. I am putting together room specs for new microscopes. Has
>anyone measured real heat production from all diode based confocals
>(no argon lasers, no mercury bulbs). Actually real heat loads from
>any microscopes would be interesting (probably to many of us).
>S
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>Simon C. Watkins Ph.D
>Professor and Vice Chair Dept of Cell Biology
>Professor Immunology
>Director Center for Biologic Imaging
>University of Pittsburgh
>Pittsburgh PA 15261
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