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ALERT : GG500 – SYSTEM UNAVAILABLE DUE TO BROKEN SAMPLE
Due to a broken sample over the weekend, the GG500 will be down for probe cleaning and maintenance for a portion of today, Monday, June 16. Please reserve one of the other systems for routine solutions NMR. Please watch for an announcement for the GG500’s return to service. -Adrienne
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UPDATE ! AV700 IS BACK ONLINE – READY FOR USE
Dear Users The long wait for resurrecting the 700 NMR is over. You will find the wait worth it, when it comes to the sensitivity and resolution of this instrument. You can start reserving NMR time via the Reservation Page here. Let us refresh our collective memories : The probe is TXI-HCN with Z-gradient with […]
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LATEST UPDATE ! GG500 and NEO500 – PLEASE NOTE
Dear Users This is the latest on both the 500 systems. Please note and plan accordingly. GG500 GG500 will continue to serve you with the iProbe that has been in place. This probe will NOT be removed right now. Until the Prodigy Probe is back to normal state, GG500 will continuously operate on IconNMR Automation Mode, […]
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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 : PRODIGY PROBE WILL BE SENT FOR REPAIRS
Dear Users The second scenario of the last post came to pass. The Prodigy probe has to be uninstalled and sent for repairs to the manufacturer. Until the probe is examined at the service center, we won’t be able to give an estimate of the turn around time. We will do the utmost to give […]
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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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UPDATE – NEO500 : QUEUE OPEN FOR ROUTINE RUNS
You can continue submitting samples. NMR Facility 02.25.25
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ALERT ! PLEASE REMOVE OLD SAMPLES ASAP – ESPECIALLY NEO500
Users Here’s the usual town cry : Please remove your used samples from the auxiliary storage rack near the instrument – it is brimming. Reminder : You are supposed to remove used sample tubes AT THE LATEST by Friday of the week. All the used samples in the auxiliary rack near NEO500 will be removed […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 : QUEUE RESTARTED – NOTE THE CAVEATS
Dear Users You can resume submitting samples. But, please note that the cryoprobe’s performance is definitely compromised and you may not get the quality of data you are used to, especially for 1D 13C spectra that employs 1H broadband decoupling. Owing to the pressure on the instrument to provide throughput, we are opening it for […]
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ALERT – NEO500 : INSTRUMENT RELEASE DELAYED
Users The ongoing test and optimization will end later than 12 pm. We will release the instrument for routine run by 1 PM. Please wait for a confirmation to this effect in another WP announcement before proceeding to the lab with your samples. NMR Facility 2.25.25
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