Re: recommended questions to XRD supplier.

Excellent company. You might ask them if they can supply an inexpensive Laue camera for crystal orientation :-) Alan Dr Alan Hewat, NeutronOptics Grenoble, FRANCE (from phone) alan.he...@neutronoptics.com +33.476984168 VAT:FR79499450856 http://NeutronOptics.com/hew

Re:recommended questions to XRD supplier.

Hi Shay, Every company will answer that their product is the best. I suggest you send typical samples you are going to run in the future, to each potential company and compare the demo data quality. In your contract state that "demo data need be resonably reproducible before acceptance", so th

Re: recommended questions to XRD supplier.

Hi Shay, We owe Aeris, so maybe I can provide some experience. The external loader is absolutely outstanding and adds flexibility to the experiment - no need to stop the experiment to load/unload samples as with Miniflex, D2 or TDM-20. Overnight/weekend measurements of up to six samples - very

Re: recommended questions to XRD supplier.

Dear Shay, I also agree that it would be very helpful to send each company some typical samples that you intend to measure and compare the results. I recently purchased a Rigaku benchtop PXRD instrument, the MiniFlex 600-C, and I personally recommend this instrument as both its price and perfor

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Hi Shay, I echo some of the other comments. A few other things: Learn how alignment will be performed (e.g., is it a black-box arrangement?) and how well you can produce close to 0.000 zero error. Is an independent water chiller required? How expensive and available are replacement X-ray tubes?

RE: recommended questions to XRD supplier.

My personal recommendations from instrument purchasing are: 1. Ask them for a full list of accessories available and a price list. Often you just don’t realise what useful accessories they sometimes have available. 2. Software licences: Buying a new instrument is a good time to get them b

Re: recommended questions to XRD supplier.

Hi Shay, An important factor to consider is how the technical assistance is in your country. You can have the best instrument, but it takes months to be repaired, maybe it is not the best instrument to choose. Best Davide Sent from Outlook for Android