Experience with the WB injector/CAS
Hello everyone,
Im very interested to know peoples experience with the WB injector/ CAS combination.
We are finishing some longitudinal studies and thinking now might be a good time to switch from HT/Water to WB/CAS. However I was a bit concerned about the extra injector cleaning required. Our local Fluidigm support staff suggest that the injector does not need to be cleaned so often, maybe once a week at worst (about 20 hours of use for us currently) or maybe up to 2-3 weeks, but this is in sharp contrast to the official advice of 8 hours or so.
Its a key issue for us as our Helios maintenance technician is not full time. We did a brief test on some of our main staining panels and there was a small but consistent improvement in resolution with WB/CAS.
Of course we can find out by using it for a few weeks, but we have only one instrument so it will be quite awkward if we ask our users to switch and then switch back a few weeks later.
Best,
James
Im very interested to know peoples experience with the WB injector/ CAS combination.
We are finishing some longitudinal studies and thinking now might be a good time to switch from HT/Water to WB/CAS. However I was a bit concerned about the extra injector cleaning required. Our local Fluidigm support staff suggest that the injector does not need to be cleaned so often, maybe once a week at worst (about 20 hours of use for us currently) or maybe up to 2-3 weeks, but this is in sharp contrast to the official advice of 8 hours or so.
Its a key issue for us as our Helios maintenance technician is not full time. We did a brief test on some of our main staining panels and there was a small but consistent improvement in resolution with WB/CAS.
Of course we can find out by using it for a few weeks, but we have only one instrument so it will be quite awkward if we ask our users to switch and then switch back a few weeks later.
Best,
James