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  1. Najah Kunhammed says:

    Dear Sir,

    I need a -80 automatic freezer for my lab, with temperature of -80°C for main store and -20°C for input/ output area.

    Can you please help me with the specifications, as I am bit confused with the ones i see online

    Thanks in advance.
    Najah Kunhammed

  2. Kelcy Newell says:

    Hi Najah,

    The Hamilton SAM HD has a -80 option with a -20 for tube picking. The reason for the -20 is that the SAM uses racks of tubes and picks from those racks into other racks for sample delivery. This is the freezer I have worked with and believe it is a great product. We did a series of experiments where we calculated the maximum amount of time that a sample in a rack would be exposed to -20 if it is not being picked for delivery, and the time was significantly less than a minute which was great for our needs. If you need that time to be shorter, you should talk to Hamilton Storage about that, as they indicated that rules could be set in place to limit that time further if necessary.

    The Arktic also has a -80 freezer, but it does not use racks for storage of the tubes, rather it uses pneumatic storage that keeps the tubes stacked. I have seen an Arktic work but do not have personal experience with it. The only concern I have about the Arktic is the limitation of tube size.

    Hope this helps,

    Kelcy

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