ICP-MS Agilent vs Thermo
Posted: Tue May 14, 2019 3:17 pm
Hi, i have to decide between these two ICP-MS: Agilent 7800 and Thermo ICAP-RQ.
The prices are similar, the Agilent is slighty cheaper butThermo has a refurbished one, ex-demo, that comes at a really competitive price.
Sensitivity wise the thermo is better on chart, better LOD, faster operations for maintenance and cleaning (the Agilent seems more on the classic side on this part), some really nice features like the curve before the collision cell that should lower noise from non ionized species.
But, sensitivity isn't that important for us, we do relative high concentration matrix, drinking water is the cleanest and hasn't matrix interferences problems. We don't do food or pharma and both instruments should be more than enough for our LOD goals.
So is all up to customer service and software. We have many Agilent instrument in the lab and we are super happy with both softwares (masshunter for GC-MS is fantastic) and with local service, they are very fast and smart guys.
On the other hand we don't know anything about thermo, we don't know if the service is on par with Agilent and their Software seems very limited compared to Agilent.
With limited i mean that you strictly have to do what it needs on the sample sequence, like QCs, editing reports seems very complicated (i believe ICP masshunter reports are excel based like GC one, right?)
Anyone has experience with the above instruments and/or softwares?
Thank you
The prices are similar, the Agilent is slighty cheaper butThermo has a refurbished one, ex-demo, that comes at a really competitive price.
Sensitivity wise the thermo is better on chart, better LOD, faster operations for maintenance and cleaning (the Agilent seems more on the classic side on this part), some really nice features like the curve before the collision cell that should lower noise from non ionized species.
But, sensitivity isn't that important for us, we do relative high concentration matrix, drinking water is the cleanest and hasn't matrix interferences problems. We don't do food or pharma and both instruments should be more than enough for our LOD goals.
So is all up to customer service and software. We have many Agilent instrument in the lab and we are super happy with both softwares (masshunter for GC-MS is fantastic) and with local service, they are very fast and smart guys.
On the other hand we don't know anything about thermo, we don't know if the service is on par with Agilent and their Software seems very limited compared to Agilent.
With limited i mean that you strictly have to do what it needs on the sample sequence, like QCs, editing reports seems very complicated (i believe ICP masshunter reports are excel based like GC one, right?)
Anyone has experience with the above instruments and/or softwares?
Thank you