Ancillary Support Equipment
The following is a partial listing of various small equipment & other ancillary items used to provide services at the LSU Genomics Core.
Mini Fridge (Danby, ~2.5 ft3)
Refrigerator-Freezer (GE, Side-by-Side, ~11-&-6 ft3)
Freezer (Gibson HD Commercial, -20oC manual defrost, ~17 ft3)
Microwave oven (Magic Chef, ~1 ft3)
Hot Block (Isotemp 125D: bead blocks & tube blocks)
Stirrer/Hot Plate (Corning, PC-420)
Eppendorf Centrifuge 5417R (30-place rotor, 1.5-ml tubes)
Pipet·Aid (electronic, serological)
Pipettes (electronic, single-channel, multiple units)
Pipettes (electronic, multi-channel, multiple units)
Pipettes (manual, single-channel, multiple units)
Pipettes (manual, multi-channel, multiple units)
Vortexer (USA Sci, touch-screen)
Vortexer (Genie-2)
DynaMag-2 (16-place, 1.5-ml tubes)
DynaMag-96 Side (0.2-ml tubes/plates)
Minifuge (MyFuge, 5-ml tubes)
Minifuge (MySpin, 8-tube strips, 0.2-ml)
Minifuge (Poseidon, 8-place, 1.5-ml tubes)
Balance (Ohaus Scout, 1200 g X 0.01 g)
Balance (MyWeigh i2600, 2600 g X 0.1 g)
Cooling chambers (CoolRack XT, 5-ml tubes, 2 units)
Cooling chambers (CoolRack M30, 1.5-ml tubes, 2 units)
Cooling chambers (CoolRack M15, 1.5-ml tubes, 4 units)
Cooling chambers (96-well plate_0.5/1.5-ml tubes, 3 units)
Line Conditioner (TripLite LC2400)
Battery-Backup (TripLite Smart1500LCDT, 7 units)
Battery-Backup (APC Pro 1500, 3 units)
Battery-Backup (Franek Instrument Grade, 3 units)
AERA-Max 290 Air Filters (HEPA, 4 units)
Filtrete 1900 Air Filters (incoming room air ducts, 4 units)
The battery-backup units ensure that instruments, equipment, and computers are protected from variable line voltage, brown-outs and temporary power outages. Similarly, the air filtration products protect the Core's instrumentation from the sub-micron particulates that flow through the air handling system of the Life Sciences Annex (for details, see
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