qTOWER³ touch

Fast Ramping 96-Well qPCR System - also available in 384-well format.

Raise your real-time workflow to the next level. Reduce your number of repeat analyses, increase your analysis speed, and significantly reduce your cost per sample in the process. The qTOWER³ thermal cycler also provides you with state-of-the-art heating technology and temperature homogeneity, which is immediately reflected in more accurate results.

This unit is easy to deploy in the busiest laboratories, because the built-in touch screen tablet make it a standalone device. This unit require little bench space, the footprint is only 27.5cm x 27.5cm.

Specifications

• Thermal Block: Silver block with gold coating
• Block Capacity: 96 x 0.2ml tubes / 96 well microplates / 12 x 8 well strips
• Sample Volume: 5 - 100 µl
• Heating: 8°C/s
• Cooling: 6°C/s
• Temperature setting range: 4 - 99°C
• Temperature uniformity: 55 °C ± 0.15 °C after 15 s
• Temperature control precision: ± 0.1 °C
• Gradient: Across 12 columns with Linear Gradient Tool
• Heated Lid: 30 °C – 110 °C

Optics

• Measuring Principle: Fiber optic shuttle system with 8 fold scanner and color modules for excitation and emission filters
• Light Source: 4 longlife, high-power LEDs (RGBW)
• Detector: High sensitive PMT (Photo Multiplier Tube)
• Read-out time: 6 s for 96 wells independent of the number of dyes
• Channels: Configurable 1 to 6