Re: Confocal Charges

Posted by Martin Spitaler on
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Search the CONFOCAL archive at http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S1=confocal Hi Daniel, this really depends on what you have to cover with the charges. According to our FEC (full economic costs) calculations, the full costs of running a confocal are around £55 per hour. We haven't been around for long enough (~1 year full size) to know how true this is, but talking to other facility in the UK that's pretty realistic. FEC includes everything, service contracts, depreciation, running costs (objectives, material), little spare parts (filters etc.), salaries, a bit of offline computing and software usage. So it really depends how much you need to recover through your charges. For more details you can contact me outside the list. Best regards, Martin Martin Spitaler, PhD FILM - Facility for Imaging by Light Microscopy - Facility Manager - Sir Alexander Fleming Building, desk 401 Imperial College London / South Kensington Exhibition Road London SW7 2AZ UK Tel. [phone] Fax [phone] E-mail [hidden email] Website: http://imperial.ac.uk/imagingfacility