I AGREE, I AGREE! Our SP-100 slide stainer is a pain in the hind end! With
analyzers now, we do fewer manual diffs than before (with exceptions of
course). I'd much rather make my own slides and dippity-doo them in
Diff-Quick or better yet, bring back my Hematek stainer!!!

D

<lol>  I know what you mean..... ;-)
We did not get a coulter until just recently.
Looking around a bit, I can see that Sysmex has some
newer counters that look to be every bit as good as the newer
coulters.

My "new" boss was ex-military tho' so was hung up on Coulters.
He did not even give Sysmex a real hearing when we replaced
the Sysmex SE-9500. He said that the rep was out too often to repair the
machine. Thing is, the COUNTER part of the machine was fine! It was the
slide maker that we had so much trouble with.

But when I went to the training seminar for the Coulter LH-750, we were
not purchasing the slide maker part of it but I saw the students that
WERE! Looks like Coulter was having just as much trouble with the slide
maker/stainer as Sysmex had. <lol> Alarms were constantly going off in
the training lab for those things.

With that many moving parts, I guess there are bound to be problems?

I'll make my slides by hand thank you! ;-D

Beware of Coulter reps !!!!

I know of a lab who bought Coulter because the chap in charge was told by
the Coulter rep that the "Coulter H1" or the "Coulter Sysmex" weren't the
machines for him.
He knew that "all blood counters are "Coulter Counters" and really had no
idea that there was more than one firm suppying blood counters.

Do some websearches.
Look at both Coulter and Sysmex, then get the best you can afford...

Be sure to check the customer support contracts for any machine.
There is a lot to be considered. :-)

Personally, I LOVE the new Coulter LH series, but it's power is probably
way above your needs.

We are looking to replace our CellDyn 1700 in a lab doing 40-50 CBC'
daily. What analyzers do you recommend and why?  Any to completel
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