On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 12:06 AM, Patrik D'haeseleer <patrikd@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Marc Juul <juul@labitat.dk> wrote:
I don't think CCL has a shaking water bath! I can fix/replace heating element.

What's the benefit of a shaking water bath versus a shaking incubator? I know BioC was getting a lot of contamination in the water bath, plus it's a real pain to clean out once it's contaminated.

Only benefits I know of are that they have a high degree of thermal stability (not unlike the water-jacketed incubators) but don't take many hours to reach the set temperature. I can see that contamination might be an issue, though it might be solved by adding something to the water. If you don't think it's worth the space allocation then that's fine.

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