{"id":2674,"date":"2022-09-16T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T23:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/?p=2674"},"modified":"2022-09-16T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T23:13:39","slug":"gg500-bit-of-history-current-issues-and-roadmap-please-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/2022\/09\/gg500-bit-of-history-current-issues-and-roadmap-please-read\/","title":{"rendered":"GG500 &#8211; BIT OF HISTORY, CURRENT ISSUES AND ROADMAP &#8211; PLEASE READ"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>GG500 &#8211; Apparent outlier in the pack :<\/h2>\n<p>Before GG500, we had a really aging and tired DRX500 console, which needed to be driven with a software interface that was predictable and repetitive, to accommodate its fragile and irreparable hardware and produce useful NMR data.<\/p>\n<p>The curated work flow of IconNMR&#8217;s Routine Spectroscopy interface was the best we could come up with at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Even after we received the gift of a modern AVANCE III console in the form of GG500,\u00a0 we had to still contend with two bottlenecks (1) sample handling (2) probe tuning\/matching, with the legacy probeheads that have been serving us for about 20 years now, while also maintaining a sense of continuity.<\/p>\n<p>I am acutely aware of the software glitches with the current Routine Spectroscopy interface and the irritation this causes, but these things are going to be soon over.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We have landed a long awaited instrument grant that will get a state of the art 500 MHz spectrometer with robotic multi-sample handler and cryo-cooled probe with automatic tuning\/matching.\u00a0 We expect this unit to arrive in a couple of months. This will replace the GG500.<\/li>\n<li>GG500 console will replace the AV500 console, which will be retired. We will also get a brand new probehead for this instrument that is capable of computerized tuning\/matching.\u00a0 No more tuning\/matching by hand will be necessary.<\/li>\n<li>Both these vastly improved hardware will be driven by a sleek and responsive Bruker Automation software that will be far superior to the current clunky Routine Spectroscopy interface of GG500.<\/li>\n<li>The new interface will provide the full functionality of the spectrometers, where, everyone from novice to Jedi masters of NMR can exploit the features to one&#8217;s heart&#8217;s content.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I will introduce the new hardware and software as well as changes that come with it in more detail soon, in other posts.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we will strive to provide workarounds to the existing issues with the GG500 so that you can still obtain the needed spectra from this console.<\/p>\n<h2><strong> COMMUNICATION IS CRUCIAL <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>At this point, I cannot overemphasize this enough.\u00a0 It is vital that you keep an open communication directly with the NMR staff in a timely manner and let us know what challenges you encounter.\u00a0 Log book entries, email or phone as well as knock on our doors are welcome.\u00a0 If you have a specific experiment in mind or a special modification is needed, please contact us. Do not ASSUME that the current setup is incapable of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Thank you for your cooperation !<\/h2>\n<h2>NMR Facility Manager<\/h2>\n<p>9\/16\/2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GG500 &#8211; Apparent outlier in the pack : Before GG500, we had a really aging and tired DRX500 console, which needed to be driven with a software interface that was predictable and repetitive, to accommodate its fragile and irreparable hardware and produce useful NMR data. The curated work flow of IconNMR&#8217;s Routine Spectroscopy interface was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2674\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/chemwp\/chemwpnmr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}