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ALERT ! NEO500 – PRODIGY PROBE IN SERVICE MODE TILL MONDAY
Dear Users We need to warm up the cryoprobe and do some additional preventive maintenance routines on the reborn Prodigy probe. This will ensure that the Probe specifications return to the promised values by the manufacturer (they are just short of the target) the expensive hardware components that were replaced are functioning upto snuff within […]
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – PRODIGY PROBE IS READY FOR USE
Dear Users You can start queueing up samples as before via IconNMR interface with the Prodigy Probe. Those of you who haven’t used the instrument before, please contact me first. Please remember and honor the important points I announced in the prior Post, in using the Prodigy system. Thank you for your patience, all along. […]
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – PRODIGY HAS RISEN FROM ASHES – PLEASE READ
Dear Users After the long and inevitable wait, the Prodigy probe has been resurrected (with a stiff price tag) and returned to us by the manufacturer. We also had to replace failing components in associated hardware that runs the probe. The probe is being tested now. We will hopefully deploy the instrument for regular use […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 – PROBE IS FULLY FUNCTIONAL WITH TOPSHIM
Dear Users The probe is optimized for different lock solvents that should make shimming with Topshim quick and easy. I have created individual shim files that are the optimal starting points for the most often used lock solvents. The files are named as below : txo.water (for aqueous samples, including those in D2O) txo.acteone txo.cdcl3 txo.c6d6 txo.dmso […]
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – PROBE CHANGED TO TXO-19F{1H,13C} – PLEASE NOTE
Dear Users The previous TBI probe had to be removed for a service operation, and I have placed the TXO-19F PROBE for the present as an alternative. Please note the following : Nuclei : 19F, 1H and 13C You can run 1H decoupled 19F experiments To switch between 19F and 13C, a cable swap is needed […]
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UPDATE ! AV700 – BBO SOLUTIONS PROBE IN PLACE
Dear Users Please note that the instrument is open for regular use after a brief interruption to investigate and optimize the VT system. Along with that task, we have now placed the Broad Band probehead in the magnet to give you the best possible senstivity for all X-nuclei, starting with 13C. As a refresher : […]
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UPDATE: NEO500 RELEASE WITH TBI PROBE
The NEO500 will be released today (Wednesday, April 9) at 1:00 PM with the TBI probe installed. CHANGE TO NORMAL USE: Because the TBI probe is a manual tune-and-match probe, all use of the NEO500 will be via reservation only. Please use the reservation page to book your time before using the instrument. TRAINING REQUIRED: […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 and GG500 – PLEASE READ
Dear Users Starting tomorrow morning, we will implement a two step process to get both the 500 NMR-s to get to full productivity mode (defined with caveat, under the circumstances). probeheads : Prodigy cryoprobe will be uninstalled and packed for shipping The iProbe that is currently serving GG500 will be placed in NEO500 magnet The triple […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 – PLEASE READ
Based on existing symptoms, we are applying some mitigating steps to the Prodigy Probe system. We will only know if the Probehead is back to normal conditions by tomorrow morning. There are two possibilities here : If the remedy we applied resolved the RF related issue, we will do test runs on standard samples to […]
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ALERT – NEO500 : SYSTEM WILL BE OFFLINE FOR HARDWARE CHECK
The automation queue is stopped to investigate an anamolous probehead behavior. The instrument will be offline for at least an hour. If the issue is resolved, the queue will be removed and an update will be broadcast. Please stay tuned. NMR Facility 4/1/2025
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