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Julian Smith III on
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Duct socks for the HVAC--they diffuse the air so there's no "blast".
Don't forget to include both supply and return in any separate smaller
rooms. We didn't, and later wanted to put up light-excluding curtains
on the entrance to the room. . .
Provision for exhausting heat from your lasers
Otherwise, central preparation facility with bench-top fume exhaust, and
separate rooms for TEM, SEM, Confocal and ultramicrotomes has worked
well for us. Most of our non-confocal fluorescence 'scopes are in one
large room with workspaces separated by partitions and very dim ambient
light, but that's legacy-the room used to be a very large darkroom for
photographic printing.
However hard you try, you will specify something, that, in hindsight,
was a waste of money. Our printing darkroom was spectacularly useful
for 5 years (new in 1999), and was gradually overtaken by digital
imaging.... We surplused a 5-year-old temperature-controlled Kreonite
sink, a new autododging enlarger, etc, etc.
Julian
Martin Wessendorf wrote:
> Dear All--
>
> Some space here is being remodeled for use as an imaging core and it'd
> be helpful to know what other institutions have specified (or WISH
> they had specified) as requirements for the space. (It'd also be
> helpful to know what people think, in retrospect, was a waste of money.)
>
> One thing that particularly concerns me is temperature stability--we
> really don't want 5-degree C air from the air-conditioning system
> blasting down onto a microscope that's in the middle of a z-series.
> However, I can only guess at the limits of acceptability. What have
> other groups specified and found works? I expect that saying "hold
> the set-point +/- 0 degrees" isn't going to be helpful to the contractor.
>
> --My recollection is that the list has covered similar topics in the
> recent past, but the search terms I've tried aren't coming up with the
> hits I'm looking for.
>
> Thanks--
>
> Martin Wessendorf
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Julian P.S. Smith III
Director, Winthrop Microscopy Facility
Dept. of Biology
Winthrop University
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Rock Hill, SC 29733
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