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UPDATE ! GG500 – READY FOR RESERVATION AND USE
Dear NMR community GG500 instrument is ready for use again. Please note the following : Topshim is working nominally. For deuterium based lock solvents, which means the majority of them, the shimming happens along the Z-axis only (known fact and a feature of the spectrometer hardware). You can start Topshim after loading the default starting […]
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UPDATE ! NEO500 – ACQUISITION ERRORS FIXED – QUEUE RESTARTED
Dear Users The acquisition related error that started around 4.30 pm of yesterday was hardware related and the system has been revived to normal functional state this morning. The queue has been restarted and the failed experiments have been resubmitted. Please check the web status page a bit later and look for your holder positions […]
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ALERT ! NEO500 – UPCOMING PRODIGY CRYOPROBE MAINTENANCE
Dear Neo500 Users Please be informed that an annual routine maintenance for the Prodigy cryoprobe system is scheduled starting next week, Tuesday, the 20th Feb ’24. The instrument won’t be available for regular pulsing for two days, starting the morning of Tuesday. Any pending preventive maintenance tasks will be rolled into this schedule as well. […]
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UPDATE – GG500 : SHIM SYSTEM OPTIMIZED
Dear Users Following the troubleshooting of sample injection issue a day ago, the shim system neeeded to be optimized properly to get the desired resolution. This has been completed now. A sample outcome is shown above. Please put to good use the optimized shim set by entering “rsh iProbe” on the command line. Then you […]
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ALERT ! NEO500 – QUEUE WILL RESUME LATER THAN ANNOUNCED EARLIER
Dear Users Our cryogen servicing of the probe and the system is taking a bit longer than predicted. Please look for another update from me when the system is back in full operation. Thank you for understanding. NMR Services Manager 1/24/24
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NEO500 : QUEUE RESET
Hello Neo500 users At least one user posted a message that the queue was not responding yesterday evening. Just want to let you know that the queue is reset afresh and it should run OK from now on. Please feel free to post a log message, if you see otherwise. NMR Services Manager 1/12/2024
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ALERT ! BAGLEY POWER RESTORED – MOST NMR SYSTEMS ONLINE
Dear Users Except AV301, ALL THE OTHER NMR SYSTEMS ARE BACK TO NORMAL INCLUDING NEO500+PRODIGY CRYOPROBE. AV301: Some electrical issue need to be resolved before the console can be powered up. We will try to get this going as soon as we can. NMR Facility Manager 10/29/2023
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ALERT ! NEO500 – SYSTEM DOWN DUE TO ATMA ISSUES
Dear NMR patrons When an experiment starts, the ATMA is an important automated step as we all know. The probe’s ATMA is getting stuck leading to a long delay for processing a single sample. The automation software has a timeout mechanism so that it doesn’t stop at a single sample. So, the queued samples overnight […]
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UPDATE : ALL GOOD WITH 300 CONSOLES
Dear Users There was a disruption in the high pressure air due to broken tubing, that led to the sample handling problems reported today morning. The problem has been fixed and the systems are back to normal. NMR Facility Manager 8/17/2023
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