Hi all, I wondering if anybody has experience with Peltier-type heat/cooling blocks that easily fit on a Biomek FX deck. We'll be exploring all options, and so...
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Gregory Lowe
gdjlowe
May 16, 2008 12:53 am
Also to answer my own question. We are here to help each other and solve the issues that we face today. We need as a group to force the manufacturers to step...
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David
robotics1nj
May 16, 2008 12:54 am
Hi Ray, Forgive the grumbles of an old engineer. I do have a nasty habit of spotting generalizations and needing to challenge them. Even if this entire subject...
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GregoryRRyan
May 16, 2008 5:56 am
... umm, I for one, am pretty interested in this thread, so don't stop cause of me listening in the corner. does it matter if there is no 6 axis universal...
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Mike Counsell
mcounsell0
May 16, 2008 2:54 pm
You make a couple of very good points here regarding software architectures that I agree strongly with. With the correct abstraction layers (interfaces) it...
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David
robotics1nj
May 16, 2008 2:54 pm
Actually you've raised a good point. Maybe the two threads are related. I think the open software idea concerns lab automation in general. So how does it...
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David Ley
david.ley@...
May 16, 2008 2:54 pm
Michael I apologise for being commercial, we have a wide range of peltier type heating, cooling and shaking ancillaries, see the following link. ...
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Greg
gdjlowe
May 16, 2008 2:55 pm
No you are on the right thread. It doesn't matter as long as you have an abstraction layer and that can be universal. Sent from my BlackBerry. ... From:...
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Raymond Hui
fastgeometry
May 16, 2008 2:55 pm
G, There are robot controllers (and an increasing number of them) which allows programming in the Windows environment. In some cases, this is ActiveX based but...
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Raymond Hui
fastgeometry
May 16, 2008 2:55 pm
We have previously integrated a thermal cycler on the FX. I think this has been done by various people. If you do a thorough literature search, you should be...
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Nygaard, John
jgnygaard
May 17, 2008 6:53 am
Hi Micheal, I've used the Beckman Peltier ALP for almost two years now on my FXs and it works very well. We use it primarily @ 4°C for the more unstable...
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jonnewmansmith
May 17, 2008 6:55 am
I have been reading this thread with interest so i thought i would throw in my two pence worth. A lot of the discussion is of people experiences with older...
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Gregory Lowe
gdjlowe
May 17, 2008 6:56 am
Seems that some of you believe I was taking a shot at CRS so let me clarify as it was far from it. The effort taken to write an instrument server so that it is...
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Gregory Lowe
gdjlowe
May 17, 2008 6:56 am
And more to that if you would like. Contact me anytime offline. There were many instruments that have software which were unfriendly to automation. Speaks to...
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Ikeda, Timothy
tpi3004
May 17, 2008 6:59 am
Ray writes: "As far as I know, Protedyne is the only company that is marketing a SCARA robot explicitly for lab use. If anyone can think of others, please let...
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David
robotics1nj
May 17, 2008 4:56 pm
... I'm sure Ray knows this but for the benefit of any members who don't know SCARA stands for Selective Compliance Assembly or Articulated Robot Arm....
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Ian Yates
iwyates
May 20, 2008 5:03 am
... format where the ... At Velocity11 we use a high-speed 3-axis radial robot (with industrial reliability and robustness characteristics) that sounds akin to...
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Hansen, John [VRCBE]
jhansen2@...
May 20, 2008 5:04 am
Hi David, Thanks for being commercial. It pleases me to see that there are alternatives to what the instrument vendors offers. My current need is slightly...
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Gregory Lowe
gdjlowe
May 20, 2008 5:04 am
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Manufacturing_Practice http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceNet Automotive changes their lines every year to accommodate new...
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Marc
searcher_21044
May 20, 2008 5:04 am
(Disclaimer... I'm the Biomek product manager from Beckman Coulter. I'll respect the group by sticking to the facts with a minimum of marketing spin!) For...
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victoria_macomber@...
victoria_mac...
May 20, 2008 11:42 am
Sorry for forgetting but who acquired Protedyne? Thanks, Vikki Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ... From: "Ian Yates" <iyates@...> Date: Sun, 18 May...
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victoria_macomber@...
victoria_mac...
May 20, 2008 11:42 am
Hi John, have you looked into Mecour for your cooling needs? I know they are customized and may be able to help. Cheers, Vikki Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T ......
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Andy Zaayenga
andy_zaayenga
May 20, 2008 12:11 pm
In May 2007, Protedyne became a wholly owned subsidiary of Laboratory Corporation of America www.labcorp.com. - Andy...
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Tom Wright, T-US
tom.wright@...
May 20, 2008 5:50 pm
Hi John - Fair warning; I work for Tecan's customization group, and our engineers just love this stuff... Our sales & apps staff typically use Tecan's...
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Tom Wright, T-US
tom.wright@...
May 20, 2008 5:51 pm
...by the way, if we do write up specs for something custom, English would be preferable. Was I the only one who needed Google to figure out that Ærbødigst...
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Hansen, John [VRCBE]
jhansen2@...
May 21, 2008 10:28 am
Hi Tom, I see that you understand the problem: The POSID moves a rack with the plates over a distance of about 30cm while it scans the barcodes. Any cabling or...
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Walter Schick
wschick65
May 22, 2008 1:13 pm
Hi, BioTX Automation had the same customer problem, in that preparing a few microliters of PCR reactions resulted in evaporation losses. They have a ice-bath...
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kasiapaczyna
May 27, 2008 5:43 am
Hello, New Tetra+ with Aequorin option has the same sensitivity in Fluorescence as the Standard camera, but it provides 6.9 logs of detection in Luminescence,...
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Kevin K. Olsen
olsenkevink
Jun 1, 2008 4:23 am
We have a faculty member here who is thinking about buying some BioTek microplate readers for his lab. Does anyone have anything good or bad to say about these...
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McCloud@...
mccloud50723
Jun 1, 2008 4:23 am
... We have purchased cardboard boxes which are subdivided into the standard 8 x 12 grid, and are used for storage of the Corning 430663, a 5ml screw top vial,...
