By Anonymous on Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 02:29 am:
Does anyone have any information about the company Biotek Kontron? Any positive or negative experiences with their HPLC equipment? I believe Biotek took over Kontron about 2 years ago. What happened to Kontron? Does anyone have any experience of service/repairs from this company?
We have money to purchase an HPLC system-any advice on our purchase would be welcome. We are seeking a simple gradient system with data handling and UV detection
By Anonymous on Tuesday, October 17, 2000 - 08:30 am:
Do yourself a favor and buy an Agilent 1100. You will not be disappointed with the hardware.
By Anonymous on Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 08:14 am:
Agree with above "anonymous". Avoid problems, never regret it.
By Anonymous on Wednesday, October 18, 2000 - 10:12 pm:
If only Agilent decided to modify their lousy 1100 autosampler....
By Anonymous on Thursday, October 19, 2000 - 08:36 am:
If only Agilent had better UV lamp ... The last UV lamp it only worked 400 hours !!
By Frank Poetsch on Monday, October 23, 2000 - 04:43 am:
Besides the Agilent 1100 series, I would think about buying a Waters 600 series with a 2487 Dual Wavelenght UV-detector (good sensitivity) and Waters Millennium32-Datamanagement. I worked with this equipment for about 8 years now and never had to face any problems. OK, the data-software is a little sophisticated, but once you get used to it...
If you don 't care about GLP and FDA, you might well think about the new Waters Breeze system - a good system for a very nice price, I think!
By Anonymous on Friday, October 27, 2000 - 07:48 am:
Kontron is still alive and doing a good job.
We are using a Kontron (Bio-Tek)HPLC which is ten years old. Itīs a real good HPLC for routine-work.
Kontron developed a new software system and a new HPLC-system (serie 5). Look at their website www.kontron-bioanalytical.com
By Ian Dale on Friday, January 19, 2001 - 02:10 am:
The quality of service depends on where you are.
All HPLC's are much of a muchness but you should concentrate on the data system as you will spend most of your time here.
M32, Chemstation and Biotek cannot compare to Dionex Chromeleon CDS. I run the Chromeleon system and have good experience of the instrumentation which is the same instrumentation produced by Gynkotek.
It would certainly be wirth you getting a demo - once you see the software, you will see what I mean.
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