UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
ALERT ! AV700 – OPEN FOR SOLUTIONS NMR USE ! CALENDAR OPEN TO RESERVE
Hello All All of you have seen the exciting activity at one end of Rm. 37 from April onwards, when we re-installed the amazing 700 MHz system and guided it through some challenging stages of installation. The system has reached a happy equilibrium, and it is in prime shape to reward you with beautiful spectra […]
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UPDATE – NEO500 : SHORT DELAY IN DEPLOYING CRYOPROBE
Dear Users We are waiting for a missing part that ought to have shipped from the manufacturer along with the repaired probe. It will be a few days before we are ready to install, test and release the Prodigy cryoprobe for regular use. To effectively use the time in the interim, we have put the […]
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ALERT ! NEO500 – PRODIGY PROBE IS BACK FROM REPAIRS
Hello All This is just a preliminary announcement that the beloved Prodigy Probehead, after careful repair and overhaul (at substantial cost) has been sent back to us by the manufacturer. For a day or two, we will be busy installing the probe back in the magnet, do needed tests for performance, and make sure that […]
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UPDATE – GG500 AUTOMATION RESUMED
The queue that was stalled during the sample breakage yesterday has resumed. The GG500 is returned to full service. Please check the queue page for further status updates. -Adrienne
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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 – GG500 AUTOMATION RESUMED
The issues causing the automation to hang has been resolved and the connection to the phoenix ftp server has been restored. Please continue to use the GG500 as usual. Thank you for your patience.
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UPDATE ! GG500 – ICON QUEUE GOT RESET (MYSTERIOUSLY )
Here is the latest. Someone or ‘some process’ reset the earlier Icon NMR session and restarted a fresh one. Upshot is that, the earlier submitted experiments are washed away. Please resubmit your experiments, if yours is part of the cohort that got aborted. NMR Facility 6.31 pm 5.15.25
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ALERT : GG500 – AUTOMATION QUEUE WILL BE REFRESHED TOMORROW
Dear Users The graphical IconNMR interface is behaving abnormally such that, a new user is not able to login to queue samples. Even the administrator account cannot take control of the queue currently. But the already submitted experiments are proceeding without an issue. To avoid a disruption to the already submitted runs, including the long […]
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UPDATE – AV700 – SHIMS ARE STILL SETTLING DOWN
Dear Users You might have noticed that Topshim is taking an abnormally long time to converge. This has nothing to do with the Topshim program, but it is caused by the magnet’s cryogenic shims still drifting towards their ultimate equilibrium. Newly charged superconducting magnets will take a while to reach a rock steady state, and […]
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