CPLC - Cold Plate Liquid Cooled Heater/Cooler
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Heat, cool or freeze your samples, not your deck.
Precise heating, cooling, and freezing-without impacting your workflow: The CPLC combines Peltier technology with innovative liquid cooling off the workflow to efficiently dissipate heat while minimizing noise and air movement. This reduces contamination risks and ensures stable temperature conditions.With a temperature range of -10 °C to 105 °C, high accuracy, and excellent uniformity, the system delivers reliable results - even in multi-unit setups. Its compact design, easy integration, and flexible adapter solutions allow seamless use with automated liquid handling platforms and a wide range of applications.
Easy Integration into robotic workflows
- occupies only one ANSI/SLAS plate position in the workflow and has low height
- less risk of disturbance or contamination from waste heat generation or air movement from fans in the workflow
- controlled with the separate Inheco Single TEC Control unit (STC) off the workflow or with the Inheco Multi TEC Control unit to control up to six instruments in parallel
- uses the same software interface as Inheco CPAC instruments
- operates in a temperature range of -10°C to +105°C
- temperature accuracy of ±0.3 K and uniformity of ±0.5 K
- temperature range minimum 35 K below room temperature, guarantees that a temperature of +4°C is maintained in the sample under all laboratory conditions
- easy gripper access lets you comfortably use the gripper of your choice
- can be used with your disposables including vials and reservoirs, for optimized heat transfer Inheco offers over 200 adapters, manufactured in house
- Heat exchanger (Part-Nr. 2300110) provides cooling for up to 5 instruments
- designed, engineered and made in Germany, rigorous quality control
- global two-year warranty and full customer service including remote support, diagnostic and servicing options
Technical Specifications CPLC
| CPLC type |
Ultraflat HT 2-TEC
7100118
|
|---|---|
| Input voltage / max. current | 24 Vdc / 4.08 A |
| Temperature range | +4 °C to +105 °C [+39.2 °F to +221 °F] |
| Temperature cycling | Yes |
| Max reachable temperature difference in the heating mode | Up to 80 K |
| Max. reachable temperature difference in the cooling mode | Up to 30 K |
| Sensor type | Two PT100 |
| Inlet and outlet hose connection in mm | outer diameter 12.7 inner diameter 7.6 |
| Outer dimensions for length x width in mm | 128.9 x 89.1 |
| Outer dimensions for height in mm | 66.1 |
| Weight incl. cord | approx. 1.10 kg [2.43 lbs] |
| Noise | 0dB(A) (max) |
| Environmental conditions | |
|---|---|
| Tolerable relative humidity: | |
| Operation | 30-80% relative (non-condensing*) |
| Transportation and storage | 10-80% relative (non-condensing) |
| Temperature: | |
| Operation | +15 °C to +32 °C [+59 °F to 90 °F] |
| Transportation and storage | -20°C to +60°C [-4°F to +140°F], (non-condensing) |
* Condensate can prevent the CPLC from operating properly and can damage the CPLC. Condensate should be eliminated on a daily basis or more often, for example by heating cycles in between cooling cycles.
Why use a liquid-cooled heater/cooler?
When your application needs cooling or heating surfaces, Peltier technology is often preferred. It offers heating and cooling plus temperature control all in one unit. But if your units discharge waste heat or air in the workflow they can cause excess heat or sample contamination, as well as noise. Moving heat exchange off the workflow eliminates those problems.What to look for in a heater/cooler
Accurate and uniform heating and cooling are important, as are the ability to maintain temperature precisely. Depending on your set-up, contamination risk and noise may also determine your choice.
- Cooling capability - off the workflow and liquid cooled or heat sink/fan combination in the workflow.
- Temperature uniformity - delivering identical temperature across the entire block, with identical results for samples in the middle or on the edge of the block, and throughout the run.
- Temperature accuracy - ensuring accurate and stable, reproduceable temperatures for the duration of the run, and for every sample in the block.
- Uniform temperature change (ramp rates) - maintaining temperature uniformity across the entire block.
- Temperature range - maximum and minimum temperature offered, including the option for sub-zero temperatures.
- Small footprint - delivering the required performance while taking up as little space in the workflow as possible.
- Low profile - to make pipetting and use of taller disposables easier.
Heat your samples not your workflow with Peltier modules PLUS liquid heat exchange
Heating and coolingThe CPLC heats and cools using a Peltier unit and prevents self-heating, enabling accurate incubation at ambient conditions.
- Peltier Modules or Thermoelectric Coolers (TECs) use the Peltier effect to create a heat flux between the junction of two different types of materials. A Peltier module is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the instrument to the other side against the temperature gradient (from cold to hot), with consumption of electrical energy. TECs run with DC voltage, and it’s easy to control the heat transfer through the module by changing the current. When the polarity of the DC is switched, the TEC swaps from cooling to heating mode. That makes TECs an excellent solution when exact control of temperature and heating and cooling rates are needed.
- Temperature range: +4°C to +105°C, uniformity of 0.5 K, accuracy of 0.3 K.
The CPLC uses an liquid heat exchanger off the workflow to remove waste heat.
Optional Heated Lid
- The Heated Lid can be used as an add-on heater on top of the CPLC, to increase the rate of heating, improve temperature uniformity (especially for deepwell plates), and enable longer incubation.
- The Heated Lid helps to avoid condensation at the top of the plate, and reduce losses due to evaporation, without needing the space of a dedicated incubator.
- The flexible cable and low weight (420g) mean it can be transported by most gripper systems, while being heavy enough to seal the plate, so allowing full automated processing.
- API available. The Inheco CPLC is quick to connect, and ready for future developments in your lab.