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If it is a old "very used microscope" you might want to consider having all the lubricants in the stage and focusing system cleaned and replaced with fresh lubricants to prevent slow settling or lagging that occurs due to viscosity changes in old lubricants before relying on such a sensitive translation device.

Dan





On Jun 10, 2014, at 4:47 AM, Magali Mondin wrote:

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Dear all,



To make a long story short, we have on our platform 2 Zeiss LSM 710 and 780
(NLO). They were equipped with piezo stages (Piezo Fine Focusing Stage),
for specific XZ applications. As we have some issues to use them for these
specific applications, we would like to have general experience feedbacks
with these Zeiss piezo stages installed on scanning confocals.



Particularly concerning the ease of use, re-positioning reproducibility to
himself and to the z limits defined with the micro-z, lifetime of the
system installed on a very used microscope…



And of course we are particularly interested with any experience with Z
studies, either in XYZ mode followed by orthogonal projections, or using
the XZ mode!



Thanks for your Help!



Mag



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