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NOTE ! GG500 – WILL ENTER ICONNMR AUTOMATION TOMORROW – FRI 14TH
The Topspin ICONNMR interface will be deployed starting noon tomorrow i.e. Friday, the 14th. It is very similar to the NEO500 interface. Here are points that are unique to GG500. Access : The system will be in Full IconNMR Automation mode from Friday morning 10 AM of a given week and continue till 10 AM […]
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GG500 : FUNCTIONING NORMALLY
A software glitch was reported over the weekend and it has been resolved. Instrument is functioning normally. NMR Services Manager 5/6/24
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NEWS ! GG500 – WE ARE ADDING AN AUTOMATED SAMPLE CHANGER
Dear Users In the span of next week, you will see a ‘twin incarnation’ of the automatic sample handler that you see on NEO500 called SampleCase, appearing alongside the GG500 system and tested. We will give a headsup as to when this will happen with as much lead time as possible, but the installation process […]
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UPDATE ! GG500 – OLD DATASETS RESTORED
Dear Users We have restored the raw datasets from the failed computer that went down around 2nd Apr., into the new system. All the active users in our database should be able to access their old datasets via the phoenix server. If something is missing, please contact us and let us know. I would repeat […]
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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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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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NEO500 Unstuck
Last night, the NEO500 encountered an issue where the icon software froze, allowing researchers to create new experiments, but not to delete or submit them. This issue has been resolved. However, the record of samples in holders and their associated experiments was lost in the process. Due to absences, the overflow of NMR tubes has […]
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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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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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UPDATE ! NEO500 – EMAIL FEATURE UPON EXPERIMENT COMPLETION – RESTORED
Dear NMR cohort Following the ‘controlled’ power disruption of last weekend, few things broke uncontrollably and the last of this was the ability for NEO500 to send email to your individual Inbox, once your IconNMR is completed. This last lose end has been tied up now. I ran a dummy scan yesterday evening and the […]
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