Wanted - Solent CAL3300 temperature controller

[Kevin Mackenzie]

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We have an UltraVIEW VoX 3D spinning disc microscope on a Nikon microscope with incubation system supplied by Solent Scientific.

The Solent CAL3300 temperature controller is no longer heating up the incubator and have just found out the Solent Scientific ceased training at the end of 2019.

Therefore, I wondered if anyone has an old heater and controller they are no longer using that we could buy or swap.


many thanks


Kevin

Microscopy and Histology Core Facility
The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition,
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
UK

[Dan Focht]

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Kevin


Having been a service tech in a previous life I am not a fan of boxing a microscope and blowing warm humidified air into it.
However, if your activity does not require multi-well plate imaging and you are doing single well time-lapse, I invite you to review the specialized products and technologies from Bioptechs.com <http://bioptechs.com/>.
There you will find products that provide the environmental control you need (CO2 if necessary, RT to 37° in about 2 minutes and steady thereafter), and compatibility with all modes of microscopy without encasing the microscope.
BTW, I especially don’t like the performance of PID controls for cell culture.
They tend to over and under shoot frequently, and are very slow to stabilize.
If you tell me what your needs are, off list, I can tell you what we can do to address them.


Dan

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On Feb 27, 2020, at 12:14 PM, Kevin Mackenzie <[hidden email]> wrote:

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We have an UltraVIEW VoX 3D spinning disc microscope on a Nikon microscope with incubation system supplied by Solent Scientific.

The Solent CAL3300 temperature controller is no longer heating up the incubator and have just found out the Solent Scientific ceased training at the end of 2019.

Therefore, I wondered if anyone has an old heater and controller they are no longer using that we could buy or swap.


many thanks


Kevin

Microscopy and Histology Core Facility
The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition,
Institute of Medical Sciences
University of Aberdeen
Foresterhill
Aberdeen
AB25 2ZD
UK

[Farid Jalali]

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Hi Kevin, I ran into a similar issue a couple of weeks ago with a customer
Solent incubator system. Is the display on the controller operational, that
is, is a temperature being read at all? If you hold the temperature sensor
with your fingers, does the temperature increase? Is the fan on the heat
source running but only cool/RT air coming through? In my customer’s case,
the controller was responsive, the temperature indicator did rise when I
held the sensor, and only cool air was coming through. Based on this, I
suggested they take the heater to their internal electrical/machine shop
and have the techs in there have a look at it. They did this and it ended
up being a simple fix. I’m not sure what they did, but you should consider
taking the unit to your university electrical shop for a look. If you want
more specific details I can put you in touch with my customer at the
University of British Columbia, feel free to email me off-list at
[hidden email].

Cheers
Farid.

On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 10:25 AM Kevin Mackenzie <[hidden email]>
wrote:

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>
> We have an UltraVIEW VoX 3D spinning disc microscope on a Nikon microscope
> with incubation system supplied by Solent Scientific.
>
> The Solent CAL3300 temperature controller is no longer heating up the
> incubator and have just found out the Solent Scientific ceased training at
> the end of 2019.
>
> Therefore, I wondered if anyone has an old heater and controller they are
> no longer using that we could buy or swap.
>
>
> many thanks
>
>
> Kevin
>
> Microscopy and Histology Core Facility
> The School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition,
> Institute of Medical Sciences
> University of Aberdeen
> Foresterhill
> Aberdeen
> AB25 2ZD
> UK
>

[Andrew Vaughan-2]

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Hi Kevin,

Like Farid I have often found the problem is to do with one of the four fuses on the board. I have created page on the MRC LMCB Light Microscopy wiki with links to a troubleshooting PDF and a couple of photos that hopefully will be useful for you and any other people having problems with these heaters. Here's the link:

https://wiki.ucl.ac.uk/display/LMCBLMic/Solent+Scientific+Incubators

Cheers,

Andrew.