From: John Gunther <johng@prospero.uoregon.edu>
  To  : Borries Demeler <demeler@bioc09.v19.uthscsa.edu>
  Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:24:36 -0800

Re: no more lamp cleaning

Borries,    3-19-01
    I had some of this upgrade kit from Beckman for a while. It consists of a
window for the mono that you can remove and clean. There is a very expensive tool
that comes with it to remove the mono window.  It also has a new lamp socket/cord
and lamp assy. You use part of your old lamp assy. We could not get a lamp for it.
After waiting for several months and being in energy trouble, I just replaced our
old lamp (standard) with the same type and got to a good uniform energy across the
cell. The new lamp was touted as having "better energy" and not requiring cleaning.
Our Beckman guy said they tend to reduce overall energy. I have elected to wait and
see.
John Gunther
University of Oregon

Borries Demeler wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On a recent trip to Germany, I visited Dr. Mueller at Bayer, and was
> surprised to see that their XLA was equipped with a lamp that no longer
> requires cleaning. Has anyone gathered any experience/comparison data
> for this lamp? Are there any disadvantages?
>
> -Borries
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