Incubator i8 - BLACK LS

Description:

• Large dark incu­ba­tor for Leica micro­scopes of the DMi8 Series
• Spa­cious inte­riour for the use of many dif­fer­ent components
• Par­tic­u­lar­ly suit­ed for the broad field of flu­o­res­cence applications
• Step­less­ly adjustable LED illumination
• Active laser safe­ty: The lamp sup­port seal­ings and the four slid­ing doors are equipped with laser safe­ty interlocks
• Pas­sive laser safe­ty: The incu­ba­tor is equipped with a spe­cial laser shield­ing mate­r­i­al on the inner sides which pro­tects from laser radi­a­tion between 350 and 700nm with a power of 300mW and a beam size of 160µm
• Two large slid­ing doors in the front panel on the left and right hand side and one slid­ing door in each side panel
• Move­able obser­va­tion win­dow behind the front slid­ing doors; laser oper­a­tions can­not be observed through the win­dow because the front slid­ing doors are secured by laser safe­ty interlocks
• After open­ing both slid­ing doors at the front, the obser­va­tion win­dow can be com­plete­ly slid­den to the left hand side for a large open­ing in the front panel
• Open­ings for cables and tubes in the rear panel on the left and right hand side
• Local CO₂ and O₂-gassing and air humid­i­fi­ca­tion with the suit­able components
• The use of fur­ther heat­ed com­po­nents is recommend
• Quick assem­bly of the incu­ba­tor and easy attach­ment from above

Includ­ed door set:

 

Door set black LS

 

The avail­able slide-in mod­ules have to be ordered separately:

Slide-in Mod­ules left with includ­ed Adapter Plate	Slide-in Mod­ules right
Stan­dard	Stan­dard
LSM	Stan­dard with door
CSU-W1	Frap / TIRF + Adapter Plate
Frap / TIRF

Laser Safety

Besides the active laser safe­ty by the inter­locks on doors and open­ings, this incu­ba­tor has also supe­ri­or pas­sive laser safety.

Our spe­cial laser shield­ing mate­r­i­al, that is used in this incu­ba­tor, has much bet­ter resis­tance against high power lasers than other mate­ri­als that are used for build­ing laser safe incu­ba­tors, like poly­car­bon­ate. This results in a high degree of safe­ty against fire haz­ard, espe­cial­ly in cases, where the laser has longer time to irra­di­ate the incu­ba­tor sur­face (e.g. overnight experiments).

Here is the result of a com­par­a­tive test of long term laser irra­di­a­tion (7h, 300mW, 532nm, Ø 154µm, beam qual­i­ty 1/e²) against these two materials.

PeCon spe­cial mate­r­i­al (irra­di­a­tion time 7 h = 420 min): Small size, lit­tle sur­face deep­en­ing. No other signs of damage.	Poly­car­bon­ate (irra­di­a­tion time 10 min): Flame for­ma­tion, exten­sive melt­ing and burn­ing of the mate­r­i­al. Test inter­rupt­ed to pre­vent ignition.

On top of it: Our mate­r­i­al has a fine black matt satin sur­face fin­ish, thus elim­i­nat­ing reflec­tions inside the incu­ba­tor dur­ing micro­scop­ic cell cul­ture obser­va­tion very effectively.