Halcyonics has expanded its range of laboratory tables with active isolation technology by introducing two new models. Our new models serve as ultimate laboratory tables for microscope users: a smarter concept than a single benchtop isolator, cheaper than any other workstation with active vibration isolation!

 

Halcyonics’ Microscopy Workstation continues the development of the Active Workstation concept which we invented two years ago. It now offers a compact active isolated surface especially for microscopes, surrounded by a conventional non-isolated laboratory desk surface. On the non-isolated surface users can place other equipment, can handle test samples or can simply write things down.

 

Important for users in Life Sciences: the size of the active isolated surface is big enough to carry large inverted research microscopes. And, for those users who need acoustic isolation as well: the Microscopy Workstations can be used together with Halcyonics’ acoustic enclosures. For further details please refer to the data sheet.

High-performance Microscopy Workstation – the ultimate solution!

Thanks to Halcyonics VarioControl technology, active vibration isolation takes effect right at 0.6 Hz and considerably increases from this frequency upward. Above 10 Hz, Halcyonics Micro systems achieve an isolation of 40 dB – that means that 99.0% of the vibration is effectively isolated. In addition to their high isolation from floor vibration through AVI (active vibration isolation), Micro systems also dampen application-generated vibration by AVC (active vibration control), e.g., vibration caused when the user touches the equipment. A major advantage of active Halcyonics systems is that they do not have any natural low-frequency resonance, which is responsible for problems encountered with passive vibration isolation systems in low-frequency ranges below 5 Hz. Microscopy Workstation units isolate vertical and horizontal vibration as well as vibration generated around the vertical axis of rotation as well as both horizontal axes of inclination. The degree of freedom of the active isolation system is thus six. The inherent stiffness of Halcyonics systems is typically 20 – 30 times higher than that of a 1 Hz passive isolator. For this reason, the Halcyonics active isolation technology provides much better position stability than with any passive system; which is a great advantage at many applications. Thanks to automatic load adjustment, Microscopy Workstations allow a wide load range with just one version – this offers comfort and good flexibility also for future applications.