Clarus 680 GC by PerkinElmer, Inc.

"We've had this instrument for over approximately two years. Has not worked smoothly for two months. To many issues."

"For the last 6 years, I am associated with this research. From the beginning, I have a great affection with PerkinElmer's instruments. To date, I have used many PerkinElmer instruments. Personally, I love all the PerkinElmer instruments. The reason behind the affection is ease of handling, precision, performance and also maintenance. Presently I am engaged in gas chromatography with PerkinElmer. And as usual, this instrument is also as good as others. Very handy to use and easy maintenance. The company representative feels happy to visit for our needs in terms of consumables or maintenance. This machine runs round the clock for many months and still there is no problem at all. The results are as good as the first day. In short this instrument is promising in performance and quality of research year after year. "

"What I have found is that the data handling system (Turbomass) seems to be more tailored to environmental use than toxicology use. The ability to do such things as re-integrate peaks or edit qualifiers is near impossible with the software. I also don't really prefer the separation of mass spec and GC parameters for a single method."

"Easy to use, good after sales care from the manufacturer, not yet used with real samples because in learning process. "

"We recently replaced our old HP GC with this new Perkin Elmer Clarus GC and couldn't be happier. The auto-sampler is a huge benefit to our teaching assistants when they have 20-30 samples to run for each lab section. The instrument has been a work horse for us and seems very robust. The software is easy to use and designed to be very intuitive. I would expect this instrument to be in our labs for several years to come."

"It is a great instrument for fast and reproducible quantitative analysis. A touch-panel allows fast and easy communication as well as a real-time control of the chromatogram."

"This PerkinElmer GC is easy to program, use, and perform maintenance on. For our purposes, we couple it to an ICP-MS (PE Elan DRC2)."

"We have two of these instruments in our lab. They are our workhorses and have proven to be remarkable reliable. They are the best in terms of pricing and they are fairly user friendly."

"Perkin Elmer instruments are generally a lower cost option that provide a reasonable quality with a few minor issues. The sample introduction is great for avoiding bent syringes but will have greater variability in reproducibility than other systems such as Agilent. The Turbomass software is reasonably easy to use with decent customization of the report format. It is somewhat less intuitive than the Agilent software but again there is a cost differential that makes it a reasonable option."