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Announcments & Equipment Logs
NEO500 – CALL TO ACTION – PLEASE CLEANUP AFTER YOURSELF !
Dear NEO500 Users This is a renewed call made a few weeks back about the piling up of unused/completed NMR sample tubes, that is overwhelming the system. See picture below : Since we don’t have a capacity larger than 24 sample tubes, we really need you to be on top of your cleanup act, […]
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GENTLE ALERT – NEO500 : SHORT STOP FOR INSTRUMENT MAINTENANCE
Dear NEO500 Users To complete the cleanup operation of a minor spillage event yesterday, the instrument queue will be suspended between 11 and 12 pm today. Please check the queue log below : NEO500 REALTIME QUEUE INFORMATION NMR Facility Manager 6/21/2023
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ALERT ! GG500 – POSSIBLE DAMAGE TO iPROBE – TXO PROBE IS IN ITS PLACE NOW
Hello All Following an unfortunate incident of a user dropping the sample tube into the magnet bore without a spinner, it turned out that the sample tube broke inside the new iProbe probehead. Being a mint condition probe, which also belongs to the latest generation, it will need careful handling in assessing the extent of […]
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FEATURE UPDATE : NEO500 – YOU WILL FIND THIS RATHER USEFUL
Dear Users Starting from today, the IconNMR session controlling the NEO500 system will contact you via email about the completion of your experiment and it will also send you a PDF snapshot of the processed spectrum. Let me elaborate. As soon as a sample in holder no. X is processed by the system, it […]
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UPDATE – GG500 : ALL NORMAL
The seemingly different issues noticed by a few users over the weekend were related. The root cause is identified and the system is back to normal. NMR Facility Manager 5/30/23
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APPEAL – NEO500 : LET US KEEP THE HOUSE CLEAN !
Dear NEO Users Appeal 1 : the problem of “Orphaned NMR Tubes” Please take a moment to behold the ‘status quo’ of samples near the instrument that I recorded yesterday. Now, this is over and above all the holder positions of the sample Carousel being completely occupied during the time of the picture snapping. With […]
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UPDATE : NEO500 – SYSTEM BACK TO NORMAL
Dear Users Thanks to those of you who alerted us to the glitch, that led to failed data collection for some of your samples. The hardware issue is resolved and I have tested that the Acquisition proceeds as expected. please note : I have resubmitted to the queue, those of the samples that were still […]
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NEO500 – REMINDER – PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE !
Dear NEO500 users Owing to the true ‘walk-on’ nature of the NEO500 SYSTEM, we may not be compelled to access the NMR Reservation Page for this instrument. I wanted to send you this gentle reminder in connection with the same. Please note that, you have a near live view of the NEO500 automation queue, which […]
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GG500 – SYSTEM OPTIMIZATION UPDATE
Dear All Standard parameter sets for three nuclei have been added. For 77Se NMR, on the command line, type: rpar 77Se all and press Return For 7Li NMR, on the command line, type: rpar 7Li all and press Return For 11B NMR, on the command line, simply type : boron AND press Return Please remember […]
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NEO500 SAFETY : PLEASE TAKE NOTE !
Dear Users Please pay attention to the following picture. The automatic sample loading Carousel in NEO500 is equipped with a Safety Mechanism that detects sample tubes that are too tall and prevents them from crashing into the sample Inject Aluminum casing and break. This is a great feature that protects the Autosampler from damage […]
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