Re: [DIYbio] What freezer for a starting DIYBio lab?

On Mon, Apr 01, 2013 at 08:30:48PM +0100, Cathal Garvey wrote:
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> Kitchen freezer without auto-defrosting would be perfect, although
> Mega's advice is good: stuff the freezer with "thermal mass"
> (ice-cooler-packs) so its temperature stays fairly constant despite
> opening/closing/powercuts/defrosting-cycles-you-didn't-want.
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> "Industrial" equipment and "lab" equipment is sometimes valuable, and
> sometimes just a ripoff designed to scare beaurocrats who don't
> understand what they're paying for; when asked to buy a freezer for a
> lab by a PI, a bureaucrat is going to assume that a "lab" freezer has
> some magic special sauce a normal freezer doesn't. I have yet to learn
> of a magic freezer.

There's one major difference between consumer and lab refrigerators:
latter are explosion-proof (sparkless). If you ever had a fridge full of ether
vapor blow up on you, that's a very useful feature.

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