One of the main things (if not THE main thing) to worry about when investing in such expensive equipment is long-time reliability and quality of service in your place. Nothing is
more frustrating than seeing your wonderful and expensive equipment standing idle for long periods because of lack of service. This may mean quite often taking compromises and going perhaps not for the front-line state-of-art piece of equipment but rather
for the sturdy, hard-working equipment. It worked for us very well.
My 2p advice.
Boaz
Boaz Shaanan, Ph.D.
Dept. of Life Sciences
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva 84105
Israel
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I'm involved in advising my institute on an X-ray home source for a core facility. The vendors are offering some new configurations. Whatever the claimed advantages/disadvantages, I'm hesitant to make a decision without consulting someone with
direct experience with them. In particular, has anyone had any experience with using the "photon100" CMOS detector being offered by Bruker, or the "pilatus 200K" detector being offered by Rigaku? I'd also appreciate hearing from anyone with experience with
the latest Bruker microfocus rotating anode generator (called the Turbo or TXS)?
Many thanks for sharing your experiences.
Fareed Aboul-ela
Associate Professor
Zewail University
Zewail City of Science and Technology
Giza, Egypt
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