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Updates from Sable Systems (posted 09/13/2007):
OUR FIFTH RESPIROMETRY WORKSHOP WAS A BLAST! A wild mix of wonderful people from around the world had a great time and learned a lot. For the first time, the course included cost of transport, analysis of the allometry of metabolic rate on body mass, comparisons of metabolic Metabolic rates of elephants? No problem. Drosophila - single Drosophila? Also no problem - Nobel prizewinners are using our systems for that application. No wonder they're Nobel prizewinners. We've recently added programmability to our RM-8 gas flow multiplexer, making this unique (though widely and incompetently imitated) instrument even more one-of-a-kind. Yes, you can now run autonomous programs consisting of up to 99 steps on the RM-8, with any sequence of valves and any step duration from 1 second to 1 hour (want longer steps? Concatenate 'em). The RM-8 can even tell your data acquisition system which channel is currently selected. This capability means (among many other things) that you can create an ENTIRELY portable system running either multi-channel flow-through or constant-volume (stop-flow) respirometry using a RM-8 and a FoxBox, without requiring an external computer! What is more impressive than a MetaMeter? 250 of 'em- that's how many of these unique, display-enabled, intelligent telemetry receiver bases can be daisy-chained over a distance of up to 1 km. You just might fall in love with our PELT-PLATE. I know we have.
Our Canadian friends can now reach us TOLL-FREE at (866) 217-6760. Far oot. Looking forward to talking with you on our nickel! Speaking of which, anyone anywhere in the world can talk to us completely free of charge on Skype. Here's our beta-release Skype page. If you haven't tried Skype, do so - it's free, easy and a lot of fun. The Export Achievement Award (given by the US Department of Commerce, not be confused with the Small Business Administration) was a nice validation late last year. As was the Small Business Administration Exporter of the Year award for Nevada!
The latest version of ExpeData is 1.1.15. Upgrade now if you if you have an older version.
Check out our ROXY-1™ intelligent "universal" gas regulator and controller. Now, be honest: how can you possibly live without such a unique and bodacious instrument? It can control gas phase O2 concentration, gas phase CO2 concentration, pressure, aquatic O2 concentration - anything for which you have a suitable analyzer, and that can be increased or decreased via a controlled gas stream. PS - we're using it in current research on the thermal effects of hypoxia in Drosophila and it regulates O2% very closely and accurately - for example, at a setting of 5% O2 our mean reading is 5.01% with a standard deviation WE INNOVATE, OTHERS IMITATE! (tm)We're not standing still at Sable Systems! Contact us for more information on any of the above. And remember that we're always available for custom projects. There's more in the pipeline... Stay tuned. |
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allometry between and within species, and a lot of other advanced topics made possible by the addition of an extra day to the workshop. Plus, some stellar new features of 
Here is an actual graph of the performance of a standard, production Oxzilla II in our 
< 0.008% over a period of an hour (click on the graph to the right to enlarge it). This outperforms most dedicated gas mixing systems based on mass flow control valves, which are typically accurate to only 1% of full scale at best. This can translate to mixing inaccuracies approaching 10% at the far ends of their ranges - inaccuracies that our ROXY-1™ avoids because it senses O2 levels directly, using a calibrated sensor, within a closed-loop control system using PID (Proportional-Integral-Derivative) algorithms that minimize "hunting".