Status:
Reviewer
Member since: 2020
Organization: Dairyland Laboratories Inc.
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- Ease of use
- After sales service
- Value for money
I hope that my review speaks for itself. Great product, great service, great value.
Application Area: Analyzing for nitrogen in agricultural products
"I have been using Leco products for 22 years and the best thing I can say is that the issue with Leco corporation is they make a product so well and so easy to maintain that you won't need to buy another instrument if it has been maintained properly. The phone service team has the experience needed to carefully walk even the most novice of technicians through the troubleshooting process, so anyone should be able to follow the step-by-step instructions to fix the instrument. They continue to make improvements to their product, anyone who has needed to replace the fitting prior to the furnace filter on the first-gen 628 knows that the service staff are listening as the update makes this process seamless. The fact that I have been using this for the past 15 years to me says that I get a great value for my money. I attempted to use another company's instrument and had to replace it with a Leco after just 4 years of use."
Review date: 03 Mar 2020 | 828 Series
By incorporating state-of-the-art hardware and an on-board, touch-screen software platform, the 828 Series allows you to easily handle a wide range of sample applications. The core capabilities and performance of previous generations of LECO macro combustion instruments have been maintained, while key improvements have been made in throughput, uptime, and reliability. Macro sample mass capability paired with cycle times as fast as 2.8 minutes make the 828 an ideal instrument for a diverse applications base, while delivering unparalleled sample analysis throughput.
Cornerstone Mobile remote software keeps the user updated from their smartphone on the instrument’s analysis batch progress, performance, and status while away.
Maximize lab efficiency and productivity with unmatched sample throughput coupled with superior instrument uptime
- Rapid cycle time of 2.8 minutes
- Extended reagent lifetimes, including a reduction reagent tube lifetime of over 4,000 samples
- Rugged 30-sample autoloader with optional expanded capacity for up to 120 samples
Application versatility with superior uptime
- Quartz dual-stage furnace with exclusive oxygen environment ensures complete combustion of macro samples with maximum temperature up to 1050 °C
- Large, porous crucible facilitates macro sample combustion and extends maintenance intervals
- Thermal conductivity cell supports the flexibility of using either helium or argon as a carrier gas without a hardware change
- Dual loop aliquot doser (available in FP828 performance and CN model), provides the flexibility to optimize methods based upon sample element concentration (low/high), or analysis cost and uptime
Low operating cost
- Reagent free primary and secondary furnace eliminates the cost and downtime of furnace reagent replenishment
- Thermoelectric cooler eliminates the use of chemical desiccant reagents for the removal of combustion gas moisture
- Combustion gas aliquot system provides an extended and consistent reagent lifetime regardless of sample mass, matrix, or carbon content, including a 4000 sample reduction tube reagent lifetime
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