Re: Cooling time for CCD cameras

Posted by Nico Stuurman on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Cooling-time-for-CCD-cameras-tp7554139p7554162.html

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On May 12, 2012, at 2:28 PM, G. Esteban Fernandez wrote:

> 1)  I'm curious how much time, roughly, it takes for a Peltier-cooled
> CCD camera to reach the lowest temperature.  Are we talking a few
> minutes or closer to an hour or more?  I have several brands of cooled
> CCDs of different vintages and I'm just looking for a "rule of thumb",
> if possible.

Our EM CCDs (from Hamamatsu and Andor) cool to -70 C in a few minutes.  The build-in sensor's  temperature can be read-out through software.

Best,

Nico