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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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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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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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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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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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