[lm-announce] BioRad users please read

[sswift]

Hi,

As you all know, the BioRad is the ONLY microscope with a chamber  
that users are allowed to switch on and off.  Chambers on the  
DeltaVisions must not be altered.

Please remember that the default setting for the chamber on the  
BioRad is "ON".  If you have turned the chamber off for your  
experiment you MUST turn it back on again immediately afterwards.  It  
takes a relatively short time for the chamber to cool to room  
temperature whereas it takes several hours for the chamber to heat up  
and stabilise.

This has caused problems for 2 reasons -
1.  the chamber has been left off ahead of live cell imagers who then  
have to wait several hours for the system to stabilise.
2.  the chamber has been left off for a fixed cell user the following  
day - which seems reaonsbale - but if this user cancels their session  
and a live cell imager takes the available space at short notice they  
then have to wait for the chamber to heat up again.

If BioRad users want to get together with me to work out the best way  
to manage this, please let me know by email.

Cheers,
Sam