It seems like a never ending battle we wage at times with a number of interested potential customers and customer-hired consultants regarding the correct thermal circulator that will properly run a MéCour thermal system; especially one that must cool the application. MéCour takes seriously what our customers dictate for their application requirements and what their samples need to be maintained at.

This is basically MeCour’s original and current premise and objective for operating its business. When the customer states we definitely need 4°C, -65°C, -85°C or the other end of the thermostat, we deliver that system to them. It’s a system they can set the temperature and rely upon it delivering the results they originally expressed to us. It’s as simple as that.

Unfortunately, there’s a slight misunderstanding, lack of knowledge or reluctance to believe just how difficult it might be to extract heat from an object, produce and sustain say 4°C in labs somewhere in the world (i.e. India vs. Chicago, Australia vs. Boston, etc). “Ambient “ is quite relative to the geographical area and the conditions of the actual lab. But, with that said, that’s not the issue. We keep hearing “it’s too big;” "fluid lines are bulky;” “wow, it’s bigger than I thought, definitely bigger than a bread box” and “can’t we use a Peltier one?” Those are actual/verbatim comments or concerns recently expressed to MéCour after circulator DIMS (dimensions) were provided.

When you get down to it, this is  exactly what we ask: "is your application and its results that important that you definitely need 4°C to make it work?" Answer: “Why yes!” So, MéCour proceeds to spend a fair amount of time calculating (we have covered this are several months ago, so it’s a refresher blog for some) the thermal load with required temperature and choose from over 400 circulators to pick the correct one. Look at it this way, we pick the wrong one, the system cannot work. We don’t interject overkill to compensate for anything. Our systems are designed from point A to B to eliminate or control any temperature loss whatsoever.

So when the feedback on proposals centers around cosmetic designs, oversized “breadbox” circulator footprints, etc., I see that individual has lost sight of the primary, if not sole objective - keep the application/samples happy and provide the demanded temperature. It’s as simple as that. So, you judge, do you go by size or trust someone like us to give the performance you stated and expect? We're listening to you out there!