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Comment by Richard Crisp on January 11, 2012 at 3:17pm

I will upload a performance brief on the U8300 versus the ML8300 and QSI 8300...

I have that at home

the apogee is clearly much better than SBIG or QSI.. no comparison. But it falls short of the FLI in a number of areas... Let me get into it once I upload teh performance brief... Trouble is that I need to revise it...

the key things I did not like about the apogee U8300:
1) 30 minutes to cool down or to warm up. Power failure costs one hour to let it warm up and then cool down.; Dumb dumb dumb and all based on a lie in my opinion
2) poorly designed cooling system: air stagnates in the heatsinks because they obviously don't understand heat transfer. I think a sophomore mechanical engineering student could do way better.
3) slow downloads: same as SBIG but way faster than QSI.. still takes a good 8-9 seconds vs 2.3 seconds.
4) poor implementation of RBI light flood: no user controllable parameters.

Comment by Marc Basti on January 11, 2012 at 3:07pm

Richard, thanks for the info, I value your opinion. Marc

Comment by Charles Dunlop on January 11, 2012 at 3:01pm

Richard how you like apogee?

Comment by Richard Crisp on January 11, 2012 at 2:55pm

Different people run their businesses differently. I don't hang up on my customers, but Mr. Lane can tell you a story about how he received that treatment from M. Barber of SBIG...

Comment by Charles Dunlop on January 11, 2012 at 2:50pm

Big companies play with everyone. I never leak about my dealings until they do, because then its a significant thig

Comment by Richard Crisp on January 11, 2012 at 2:48pm

Aplegen has either claimed or hinted that Roche is a customer. That might only mean that they bought a couple of eval cameras and have no plans to buy more.. who knows what the truth really is when dealing with those guys.

personally I expect most of aplegen/sbig's sales to remain in the astronomy market bought largely by their cult-like followers... only a cult mentality explains it in my opinion because the cost/benefit ratio certainly doesn't...

Comment by Charles Dunlop on January 11, 2012 at 2:35pm

I'm in industry, in my opinion with life tech, Roche, and illumina already saturating the market no other company has a role unless they have an accuracy increase which anything relating to a ccd won't cater to. So sbig marriage to applera isn't going to work, at least for genomic. That would be my take with limited I formation.

Comment by Richard Crisp on January 11, 2012 at 2:31pm

You may be right Charlie. I saw that Hugh Martin of Pac Bio was replaced by another CEO. Not sure if the opportunity that Aplegen/SBIG sold to the AVI-TECH people in S'pore is even feasible at this point....

Comment by Charles Dunlop on January 11, 2012 at 2:27pm

Sbig will be cut loose from their parent company, sold to Meade or something, or perish. I'm going fli.

Comment by Richard Crisp on January 11, 2012 at 2:18pm

a lot of people buy sbig and qsi cameras too... that says nothing about the quality or the cost/benefit ratio...

I don't buy products from that vendor...I think the cost/benefit ratio is out of whack quite frankly.

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