I second Scott's post. About the only problem we've had with our
Akta instruments is this type of degradation of the filter. I'm not
sure what the mechanism is, but the filters do seem to crap out after
a while, at least in the cold room (oxidation? I have no idea of what
the filter is made of...).
Pat
On 1 Jul 2009, at 5:07 PM, Scott Walsh wrote:
Hi Matt,
Check to make sure the A280 filter is clean. Ours was filthy. You
might need to replace this (~$350). We were experiencing the same
thing you mentioned and just had the GE technician out today.
Also, make sure the A280 dial is set correctly on the lamp. Please
check the manual for guidance.
Best,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Colins <matt.colins2...@yahoo.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 4:40 pm
Subject: [ccp4bb] low UV reading on AKTA prime
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Hi all,
>
> We recently got low UV reading on our AKTA prime. We contacted
> GE healthcare, but was told that the UV reading on AKTA prime
> should be 20% of the spectrometer reading, because the path
> length of the flow cell of AKTA prime is only 2 mm (20% of the
> pathlength of a spectrometer cuvette).
>
> I am not sure whether that is the case, but we used to get much
> higher UV readings on the same AKTA prime (almost the same as
> the spectrometer reading). The UV reading just keeps dropping
> over time in the past several months.
>
> Here I have two questions. First, should the UV reading on
> AKTA prime be 20% of the spectrometer reading? Second, what
> could go wrong with our AKTA prime? (I know it is not the lamp,
> because we put in a new lamp and it didn't solve the problem)
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Matt
>
>
>
>
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