UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
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 : SYSTEM WILL BE DOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
At a minimum, the NEO500 system won’t be ready to collect data till 3 pm, tomorrow, 2nd April ’25. Please stay tuned for further updates in this space. NMR FACILITY 4/1/2025
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ALERT – NEO500 : SYSTEM WILL BE OFFLINE FOR HARDWARE CHECK
The automation queue is stopped to investigate an anamolous probehead behavior. The instrument will be offline for at least an hour. If the issue is resolved, the queue will be removed and an update will be broadcast. Please stay tuned. NMR Facility 4/1/2025
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IMPORTANT NOTE : SAMPLE PREPARATION AND HEALTH OF THE NMR INSTRUMENTS
Dear Users The NMR instruments in our facility are not only expensive but they are result of years of extensive R&D and exquisite engineering. They are robust enough to tolerate quite a bit of abuse. But, there are limits to how much these versatile and delicate instrumentation can take and still keep functioning. These days […]
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UPDATE – AV300 : VT SYSTEM RESTORED TO NORMAL OPERATION
The faulty chiller unit, that prevented normal VT operation has been fixed. On the lower side, now you can reach to temperatures below 25 C and you should be able to reach upto -5 deg. C with good stability. The absolute low at this point you can reach is -8 deg. C with a possibly […]
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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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