Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Amity University
A very sophisticated instrument
Application Area: Solvents purity, assay of raw materials, oil and ghee profile
"A very sophisticated instrument with high sensitivity, run up to 100 samples in one time"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Rutlandbiodynamics
Very reliable easy to use instrument.
Application Area:Essential oil analysis
"Very robust easy to use instruments. The only downside is the TotalChrom software used to control the instrument is not very sophisticated, even though there is a manual integration option it is very basic."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Lupin
Great accuracy and speed of analysis.
Application Area:Solvents analysis
"Clarus 680 GC is a great fast analysis system for solvents analysis. We typically have a sample analysis load of about 40 samples per 8 hours of shifts. Clarus 680 GC helps in cooling down time reduction so the maximum number of samples can be analyzed. The accuracy of this GC system is perfect and we get great results of RSD."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2019
Organization: Recipharm
Not as expected and GC not efficient in our lab.
Application Area:Simple gas analyses and residual solvents
"Not happy with this system. Use with Empower 3 is very difficult and after sales care does not help. Method transfer for routine residual solvent analysis were either very difficult or not completed for several of our raw materials."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Penstraze Consulting
As good as previous OR GCs.
Application Area:Routine material and finished product analysis
"Following on from a tradition of great GCs, this one is great, versatile and easy to use."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Contec Inc.
Rugged instrument with merely OK software.
Application Area:Calibration for determination of %ethanol in solutions using flame ionization detector
"I was impressed with the reproducibility of the instrument. The flame jet is more resilient than those offered by other manufacturers. The software is not the best but the instrument makes up for it."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2020
Organization: Glanbia
Some aspects are user-friendly, some are not
Application Area:Cholesterol analysis
"The software that comes with it is not the most user-friendly. I much prefer Waters' Empower. Instrument maintenance is pretty user-friendly. Results are reproducible as long as syringe and liners are appropriately chosen and changed regularly."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2018
Organization: purolite
Simple and very effective piece of kit for the bench!
Application Area:Analyse enzyme activity and residuals
"Love this machine! Methods and sequences so easy to set up on Total Chrom! The auto sampler is great, usually running 167 samples the sample holder holds 108, but is so easy to pause run and switch vials over. Depending on the individual run time you can just leave to run overnight and results will be there by the morning. Column changing is just easy and PerkinElmer also have videos online to show you how step by step. Changing the septum is also easy! Very simple to lid fit and check gas flow on the touch screen pad too! Great piece of neat kit for the benchtop!"
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2012
Organization: US EPA
Would by a used Agilent system over a new PE setup.
Application Area:Environmental analyses
"Although the price point was great, the equipment and software did not perform to the standard established by using Agilent equipment."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2017
Organization: Daiichi Sankyo
Recommended!
Application Area:Pharmaceutical
"Clarus 680 has met our expectations with excellent accuracy, even in low concentrations. The operation, column installation and analysis, is easy. It's works very well using the software Empower, considering our needs. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2016
Organization: Treatt
Customer Service should have offered a replacement by now.
Application Area:Gas Chromatography
"We've had this instrument for over approximately two years. Has not worked smoothly for two months. To many issues."
Status:
Advanced ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: University College of Medical Sciences (University of Delhi)
PerkinElmer's GC is not a brand in research instruments but it is a name of trust
Application Area:Pesticide analysis in various human tissue sample
"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. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Bucks County Crime Lab
Application Area:Toxicology
"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."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2015
Organization: Universidad Santa Maria
Application Area:Biotechnology
"Easy to use, good after sales care from the manufacturer, not yet used with real samples because in learning process. "
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2014
Organization: Illinois State University
Application Area:Organic teaching lab
"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."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2011
Organization: Gdansk University of Technology
Application Area:Determination of BTEX compounds in gasoline
"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."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: CDC
Application Area:Public Health Studies
"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)."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2013
Organization: The Hartford
Application Area:Forensics
"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."
Status:
ReviewerMember since: 2006
Organization: The Hartford
Application Area:Fire debris, IH
"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."