PowerWave XS Microplate Spectrophotometer

PowerWave™ XS sets new standards in performance and value for money in a microplate scanning spectrophotometer.

PowerWave XS is a single channel reader for maximum flexibility in plate formats and can accommodate microplates from 6- to 384-well, including Terasaki formats, and has a variety of read modes including endpoint, kinetic and spectral scanning.

The use of a monchromator for wavelength selection means that it is possible to read at any wavelength, from 200 to 999nm, without the need for filter changes and Spectral scanning allows the optimum wavelength to be determined in any microplate well.

4-Zone™ temperature control to 50°C, user programmable shaking, easy access for most robot microplate handling devices, including BioStack, and ultra fast Sweep read mode are all standard features of this compact and powerful, yet affordable microplate spectrophotometer.

Applications include ELISA, kinetic enzyme assays, nucleic acid determinations, A₂₆₀/A₂₈₀ ratios and much more.

Other features include:

Continuous wavelength selection from 200-999nm in 1nm increments
Spectral scanning from 200-999nm
Choice of reading speeds:
- Normal mode - 8 lamp flashes per well to give Abs reading. If reading is greater than 2.0Abs, then the well is read with 64 lamp flashes to give an assured result at high absorbance.
- Rapid mode uses 8 lamp flashes per well regardless of the absorbance result.
- Sweep mode meerts the challenge of high throughput requirements. An entire 96-well plate is read in 14 seconds
Choice of spectral scanning speeds.
4-Zone temperature control from 4º above ambient up to 50ºC and user programmable shaking - low, medium, high and variable.
Small footprint and easily accessible carrier for robotics
Includes Gen5™ PC-based data analysis software