Laboratory temperature maintenance

From: Pani Apostolidis <pani-apostolidis@northwestern.edu>
Date: Thu Dec 13 2007 - 10:41:51 EST

('binary' encoding is not supported, stored as-is) Dear flowers, We have recently purchased an Aria equiped with a 20 mW blue, a 150 mW green, a 40 mW red red and a 60 mW UV for our new lab at the University of Delaware. We are having problems with laser drift and our BD service rep has recommended lowering the temperature in our laboratory to 65F (that's ~ 19C, i think). Sure enough, the temperature in the lab at the end of the day (after running the sorter for 7-8 hrs) is closer to 80F than 70F. Our building engineer is trying to be helpful, but so far has not been able to come up with a way to lower the temperature to 65F in our lab and MAINTAIN it there until the end of the day. I would like to hear if any of you have encountered similar issues in your laboratories or core facilities and how you have dealt with them. The only solution I can come up with is move the instrument to a small, dedicated room (sort of like a cold room, but kept at 65F), but there are so many reasons why this is not feasible... Please help! I really appreciate any suggestions. Thanks a lot, Pani A. Apostolidis PhD Candidate Northwestern University - Delaware Biotechnology Institute TEL: +1-302-831-6168 E-MAIL: pani-apostolidis@nortwestern.edu Received on Thu Dec 13 13:49:26 2007