Multi-User Convenience

Aquarius double beam instruments were designed for the greatest convenience in a laboratory where multi user operation is required.

All methods, stored scans, plots, curves and data remain in secure integral memory, tamper protected by passwords, readily accessible to all operators without the possibility of mislaid disks or plug in card modules.

Sampling Flexibility

The design of the double beam optical sampling allows almost identical space and facilities in both the sample and reference beams. Multi-cell reference sampling, with temperature control is therefore possible. Operation is not limited to a single standard cell in the reference beam as in some other instruments.

Reflectance and Gel Scanning

Accessories include fixed angle and variable angle reflectance units and a gel scanning system for gels up to 100mm long.

DataStream

Data may be transferred from the spectrophotometer to a PC, or the software used to control the instrument from a PC. Datastream software, developed by Cecil Instruments, has a wide range of facilities including graphical and tabular presentation, normalisation of overlayed traces, point and peak pick using a cursor, library facilities, data storage in files on disk, history logging and copy and paste to other applications such as Excel, Word etc.

The photograph below shows an Aquarius instrument in use in Cecil AInstruments applications laboratory.