UW CHEMISTRY NMR
Announcments & Equipment Logs
ALERT AV301 : PROBE ISSUE
The automated tuning mechanism has developed a problem on the 1H channel. Until this probe is fixed, an interim double resonance probe i.e. 1H, 13C will be installed in AV301.
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DRX499 UPDATE : INSTRUMENT READY FOR USE
Users can block times as usual. The usual warnings and reminders highlighted last time when an incorrect sample insertion occurred, apply now also. Thank you for your cooperation.
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DRX499 – INSTRUMENT DOWN DUE TO USER ERROR
A user has managed (again) to drop a sample tube without a spinner into the magnet bore. Currently we don’t know the extent of damage this has caused but we are investigating. An update will be posted once the instrument is revived back to usability.
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AV700 UPDATE : SYSTEM IS REVIVED
The workaround is functional and the spectrometer is working again. The probe change to solids will be completed today, as planned.
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AV700 ALERT : SYSTEM DOWN DUE TO PNEUMATICS PROBLEM
The proposed probe change is postponed to tomorrow since the console has a damaged filter system. A workaround is being tried and if the console can be revived immediately, then we will be on track with the original schedule. An update will be posted in due course.
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AV700 : PROBE CHANGE ALERT
The solutions HCN probe will give way to the solids MAS probe come Monday, the 6th of May ’13. The spectrometer will serve the solids work needs for about four weeks from this date.
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AV500 – POSSIBLE VT ISSUE
Users have mentioned that they are not able to bring the VT set point below approx. 285 K. We are looking into this and an update with more information and planned remedy will be posted here. Stay tuned…
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AV500 UPDATE : Screen Freeze Resolved
Users can drag and drop the datasets as before, if they prefer that method. The spectrum screen will not freeze with this operation. Nevertheless, the Right Click has a context menu that has more items that are useful, other than opening the dataset.
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AV500 Note : screen freeze when you try do drag and drop a dataset
A software patch needs to be applied to remove the issue of screen freezing when you drag and drop an existing data set from the File Browser onto the Topspin spectrum window. To circumvent this currently, please Right Click on the dataset and choose the ‘Open’ or ‘Open in New Window’ from the menu that […]
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AV500 UPDATE : DATA ACCESS RESTORED….
The intermittent data access issue is resolved. Users are requested to note that, there is a fall back available in situations when data is not seen from Phoenix. You can directly upload the data files to the UW cloud storage or any other suitable third party storage via the web browser. Although this is not […]
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