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Thinking of a used Perkin Elmer Series 200 Autosampler
Posted: Fri Jul 19, 2013 6:10 pm
by Alp
I am considering the purchase of a used autosampler for LCMS.
There seem to be plenty of used P.E. series 200 autosamplers on the market. Are there any issues with these devices such as being prone to fail in certain ways that I may want to know about? Parts availability?
Thanks
Alp
Re: Thinking of a used Perkin Elmer Series 200 Autosampler
Posted: Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:14 pm
by cbwhipp
IMHO I feel the S200 Autosampler is great, reliable autosampler. The main parts that are still readily available and that I would recommend replacing at least once a year are the needle, rheodyne valve rotor seal and maybe the stator face.
Re: Thinking of a used Perkin Elmer Series 200 Autosampler
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2013 12:07 am
by Alp
Thanks for the much needed input cbwhipp.
Re: Thinking of a used Perkin Elmer Series 200 Autosampler
Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:10 pm
by Wissenschaft
I had only one real issue with one of my PE series 200 autosamplers. For some strange reason the temperature would skyrocket, boil our samples completely dry and end up warping the autosampler tray. It finally stopped without anyone really understanding why it was doing this. If we unplugged the temperature controls and just used it at ambient it worked great though!
Re: Thinking of a used Perkin Elmer Series 200 Autosampler
Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:20 pm
by Vlad Orlovsky
we are using 3 of them in QC/production since 2003, very minor repairs. It is cumbersome but works well.