Friday, June 11, 2010

New Lab

We, Katz lab, and the Neuroscience Institute have moved to the new building near Georgia State MARTA Station.
We are on the 8th floor.


Cool-looking building. Tornado-proof? Probably not.

My rig room has a window. I can see the horizon while poking cells!


Our aquarium is now 30 sec away from the lab. This is great.
I did lots of plumbing work to install new filtering system and protein skimmers. This is a hard work. I have had 3 leakage from various PVC joints I made. One of them was due to a crack that was developed during weekend. By Monday morning, half of the tank water leaked out.

One of the chillers failed because the compressor overload protector had fallen off and disconnected the power. I opened it up the chiller and rewired the circuit to skip this failed protector. Now it is running fine.

I was also in panic when I found the other chiller heated up in the morning. The radiator fan was not running. The water was like hot tub. I opened the chiller and found that the fan blade was stuck by touching the frame. I mended it back and now its working fine like new.

Setting up the aquarium is like buying a new Harley Davidson. You will have trouble after trouble until the machinery gets settled.
I would definitely buy Honda.

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