Re: Tokai Hit vs OkoLabs stage top incubation for Zeiss LMS 880?

Posted by Romin, Yevgeniy/Sloan Kettering Institute on
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Hi Mary

We don’t have okolabs in the facility here, but we have several Tokai hit incubation Systems that we use on our Leica Confocals. I have nothing but good things to say about them. On our Zeiss LSM 880 we use the zeiss incubation system, seems to be working all right.

Yevgeniy

> On Dec 9, 2019, at 18:08, Mary Ellen Pease <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> We have a Zeiss LSM 880 NLO on the AxioExaminer/upright body with 35 channel GaAsP spectral detector, BiG detector, Airyscan and Airyscan Fast. We have both the Prior Z deck, and the Piezo Z stages, though we found out that switching between the two is more difficult/time consuming than we first realized. Currently the Piezo Z stage is in place.
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> We wish to purchase an incubation system for use with our dipping lenses and it appears that Tokai Hit and OkoLabs are the main systems out there. I tried to get a Tokai Hit demo but the unit is booked until April, 2020. I reached out to and got a quote for a similar unit from OkoLabs but now we are ready to purchase and I'm concerned about buying either units sight unseen or without vetting from people in the community. What are people's experience with these systems? Thanks in advance.
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> Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
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