From: Houston, Jim (Jim.Houston@stjude.org)
Date: Mon Nov 23 1998 - 09:13:24 EST
To All: >From having a sorter in various environments, I would suggest putting a fan on the power supplies if the room temperature exceeds 75 degrees or warms up gradually by the end of the day. My Vantage is in an extremely controlled room. I still run fans on the power supplies. It will shift after about 2 hours without these fans. Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: almei_g [SMTP:almei_g@med.unr.edu] > Sent: Thursday, November 19, 1998 9:29 PM > To: Cytometry Mailing List > Subject: Re: Room temperature and Sort instability > > > Dear Andy > > I had that problem before. After 4 h of having the sorter on ( because the > room would start to warm up) I could not get stable sortings anymore, and > that especially happened during the summer. Since we installed an A/C > unit > in the room, we never had this kind of trouble again, and have experienced > a > noticeable difference in the quality of sorting. > > Graca Almeida-Porada, M.D, Ph.D. > > University of Nevada > VA Medical Center > > > > > > >Hi all you FLOWers! > > > >This subject was briefly discussed in the past and I know that all of you > >who sort can vouch for this, however, does anybody have any "Hard > evidence" > >for room temperature affecting sorting? Our buildings heating/cooling > >system is not reliable (+/- 15F on any given day) and we've been asked to > >"justify" having an A/C unit put in. > > > >Any info would greatly be appreciated! > > > >Thanx in advance! > > > > >
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