Re: Design specifications for an imaging core

Posted by Martin Spitaler on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Design-specifications-for-an-imaging-core-tp5008946p5020660.html

Dear Martin,

 after looking long and hard for adequate air conditioning in our small
rooms without creating an air blast, we ended up with a solution seen in our
server rooms: A raised floor and the cooling box next door, cold air comes
up from the floor through grilles that can be places anywhere in the room.
Due to the large area of grills, the air never blows out of any of them.
Room temperature stability is very good, and despite early worries we rarely
had vibration problems. The floor tiles are ~6cm thick and very stable
(servers weigh over a ton per square metre).

Good luck,

Martin
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FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy
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Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401
Imperial College London / South Kensington
Exhibition Road
London SW7 2AZ
UK

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On Wed, 5 May 2010 09:01:36 -0500, Martin Wessendorf <[hidden email]> 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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