Has anyone purchased the new cell washer from Thermo Fisher, the Cell Washer 3?  I'm interested in your experience with it and any advantages/disadvantages you see.  Are there any extensive maintenance requirements you wish you would have known prior to purchase?  I was unable to find the operators/service manual online.

Our old Sorvall 2+ finally died, may it rest in peace.

I've reviewed the operators manual to the new Helmer.  It looks nice.  Not sure how long the display will last with my staff.  I also thought a negative was that they recommend running distilled H2O through it daily or after it sits for more than 4 hours.  We don't use it often, so we'd be running distilled water through it prior to every use. 

 

Thanks!

hi ksmith ,, regarding the thermo cw3 here in our section we have it for 6 month, we use it around 10 times/ day

no problem at all unlike cw2 with the plastic rotor inside lots of problems with that one, id say 6 months are not enough to judge but it's doing well up to this moment.

 

Thanks, that's good news.  We purchased one.  I'm getting ready to write up a validation plan.