Re: Coulter and Partec

Dear Flower, I agree with Roy regarding the issue of disclosing business
and income sources when you provide a "candid" advice through this list. I
assume that all the information provided is fine and in the spirit of
contributing to the overall knowledge of the users of this list. I always
resent when somebody hide under false affiliations or disguise its source
of income. To who do this people think that they can fool? I understood
that before signing into the list the user has to identify to the list
manager and names likes the alike to "Uriel" (just an example) without
proper professional or institutional affiliation has been using and I can
say abusing of this list.  I only hope that good ethical practices will be
in the best intention of all the users of this important list. Regards
Rafael

> In addition to Ken's very informative study of the 96 well samplers I
> would like to point out that the BD HTS is not only very reliable (we have
> used them for over two years with negligible down time) it can be replaced
> in about 10 minutes on a FACS Calibur. I think it is relatively easy to
> remove from the LSR II as well. In case you have a problem you can not fix
> (a rare event with the HTS) just call BD's tech support and request a
> replacement unit while you send it back for repair. They generously offer
> this service but are VERY reluctant  to fulfill it. Be persistent and
> discuss it with the instrument sales person before purchasing it. The HTS
> is shamelessly overpriced and they should meet high standards for $
> 40,000.
>
> Akos
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> Akos Szilvasi
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> Flow Cytometry and Confocal Microscopy Core Facilities
> Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, Inc. (NIBRI)
> 100 Technology Square, Cambridge, MA 02139
> akos.szilvasi@novartis.com
> tel 617 871 7177
> fax 617 871 7051
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> "Kenneth" <uffenheimer@mindspring.com>
> 06/14/2005 03:15 PM
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>	To:	Cytometry Mailing List <cytometry@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu>
>	cc:	(bcc: Akos Szilvasi/PH/Novartis)
>	Subject:	Re: Coulter and Partec
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> Dear Paolo,
>
> I have studied both the Coulter and Partec systems and their microplate
> sampler capabilities.  Although the analyzers are comparable, their
> microplate samplers do not rank well agains