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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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REMINDER ! NEO500 – ANNUAL CRYOPROBE MAINTENANCE TOMORROW
Dear Users This is a gentle reminder that the instrument won’t be available for regular use from the morning of 20 Feb, Tuesday until approximately the evening of 21st Feb, Wedensday. The acquisition queue should be available for routine use by 5 pm on Wednesday. If anything changes we will strive to inform you as […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 : SYSTEM NORMAL
All It looks like some one has pushed on the red safety lever on the Carousel and triggered an error condition. Please refer to my earlier post on this topic : UPDATE ! NEO500 – SYSTEM UP – USER ERROR CAUSED INTERRUPTION Please pay attention to this simple step and avoid disruption of service for […]
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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 – BUFFER SAMPLE TUBE RACK IS OVERFLOWING
Dear All It is Friday and before you unwind for the week, please get to Bagley 33 and pick up your abandoned sample tubes from the overflow rack (at the least) as soon as possible. If you do not claim it, before the end of the day, the tubes will disappear ! Thank you for […]
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ALERT ! NEO500 (AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS) PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS !
Dear Users Please do not place a disruptive sample label like the one I show below in the picture on your NMR tube and try to load it in the system. There are specific NMR sample tube labels available that completely wrap around the tube so that it does not obstruct sample Inject and Eject […]
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UPDATE ! AV301 – BACK TO NORMAL
Dear Users AV301 is ready for regular use. Please reserve time as needed. With this, all the instruments are back to normal schedule in the facility. NMR Facility Manager 10/30/23
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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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NEO500 : REMINDER ABOUT CALENDAR
Dear Neo500 Users It is great to see that we are all collectively doing what we can to keep this wonderful instrument collecting awesome data near close to 24/7 and squeeze every drop out of the $$ given to us. Notwithstanding this, one can anticipate software/hardware glitches, bugs, as well as planned maintenance steps to […]
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