• StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    4 days ago

    We talking ThermoFischer Scientific, or others? Is there a reliable ULT freezer anyone can recommend?

    Edit: also what were the common failures?

    • notthebees@reddthat.com
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      3 days ago

      Absolutely real on the thermofisher one. We had one die once. I have a photo of it actively dying of death early this year. It’s about to get carted off as we got a rebate for recycling our old freezers.

      That day was funny bc I was able to leave early that day but I was waiting for my sister to finish her classes before we went home. So I was playing TF2 on my laptop using my work dock before my supervisor’s supervisor walked in. Luckily for me she did not care.

      We transferred all the samples to the one beside it.

      Edit: I think that was the only -80 freezer that had issues and it was probably 15 years old when it died. The newer thermo Fisher isotemps seem to be okay.

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      We used whatever we could get our hands on.

      A frozen seal was probably the most common, which is not world ending as it is fine after you defrost it. But once it is defrosted you have to recertify it, which takes about a week.