
LXL-TB-015BB
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SW 32 Ti and SW 32.1 Ti Swinging-Bucket Rotors
Preparation and Use
3
Refer to
Rotors and Tubes
for detailed information on the use and care of Quick-Seal tubes.
•
Quick-Seal tubes are disposable and should be discarded after a single use.
k
onical™ Tubes
Polyallomer
k
onical tubes, used to optimize pelleting separations, have a conical tip that
concentrates the pellet in the narrow end of the tube. The narrow bottom also reduces the tube’s
nominal volume and minimizes gradient material requirement. The
k
onical tubes come in both
open-top and Quick-Seal tube designs. Conical cavity adapters hold the tubes in the rotor buckets
Polyallomer and Ultra-Clear Open-Top Tubes
Polyallomer and Ultra-Clear® open-top tubes should be filled as full as possible (2 or 3 mm from the
tube top) for tube support. If necessary, float mineral oil (or some other low-density, immiscible
liquid) on top of the tube contents to fill the tube to its maximum volume. (Do not use an oil overlay
in Ultra-Clear tubes.) All opposing tubes for a run must be filled to the same level with liquid of the
same density.
Run Times
The
k
factor of the rotor is a measure of the rotor’s pelleting efficiency. (Beckman Coulter
has calculated the
k
factors for all of its preparative rotors at maximum rated speed and using
full tubes.) The
k
factor is calculated from the formula
EQ 1
where
is the angular velocity of the rotor in radians per second (
= 0.105
RPM),
r
max
is the
maximum radius, and
r
min
is the minimum radius.
After substitution:
EQ 2
1.
Adapters
1
k
r
max
r
min
ln
2
-----------------------------------
10
13
3600
------------
=
k
2.533
10
11
r
max
r
min
ln
RPM
2
------------------------------------------------------------------------
=
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