x-cite

[Maria Y. Boulina]

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Hello confocalmicroscopy,
One of our x-cite units makes the bulb inside become dim in about 400 hrs. Is it the cooling
problem? where do you send those to get fixed typically?
Thank you for reading and help!!
Marcia

[George McNamara]

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Hi Marcia,

X-Lite is from lumen Dynamics, which was bought and changed its name to
Excelitas,

http://www.excelitas.com/Pages/Product/X-Cite.aspx

if you - or hopefully just your user - need to ship the unit,

http://www.excelitas.com/Pages/Support/Service-Instructions.aspx

George
p.s. try to move all your arc lamps and metal halide lamps to LEDs --
both because of bulb explosion risks, support stuff like below, and
because mercury is being regulated out of products (metal halide have
mercury too). Including the confocals. The X-Cite LED series have a
bunch of price points. See also ThorLabs LED4
http://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=3836
though need to make sure you get all the components (controller, lamp,
LEDs, light guide, scope adapter). Rich Cole in Albany has had LED4 on
his confocal scope(s) for years - just looking by eye for fluorescence
works fine.



On 11/17/2014 11:02 AM, Maria Y. Boulina wrote:

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> To join, leave or search the confocal microscopy listserv, go to:
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> *****
>
> Hello confocalmicroscopy,
> One of our x-cite units makes the bulb inside become dim in about 400 hrs. Is it the cooling
> problem? where do you send those to get fixed typically?
> Thank you for reading and help!!
> Marcia
>
>    

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George McNamara, Ph.D.
Single Cells Analyst
L.J.N. Cooper Lab
University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX 77054
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