Gilson Pipetmax 268 experience

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Hello!
Does anyone have feedback/experience with Gilson Pipetmax 268? I’m looking for an afforadble workhorse to automate some basic procedures currently performaed manually. I’m talking plates reformatting/normalization (tracking nightmare), reagent distribution across the plate, ideally SPRI. Pipetmax looks decent on paper and from what I could find should be able to handle all these tasks. However, I can’t help but wondering why I don’t see more of them around? Even on this forum, the only search result on this forum is from @DanielYip and there does not seem to be any development since the instrument was launched years ago.

PS a trivia question on top of the above - what does 268 in the name means?!

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Hi Nikolay (And anyone else who is reading this).

It’s interesting that you should mention a lack of development. This week the new Gilson 278 platform has just been released - https://youtu.be/tCKZ4dDnfP4?si=YakB_Y6rvB1zVU5y - alongside 3 application-based packages for both the existing 268 model and the new 278 model.

And I guess that brings me to your trivia question - 2 (defines the product as a liquid handler) | 6 (relates to the liquid handler’s size/capacity) | 8 (describes the max number of channels). So the Pipetmax 268 is an 8-ch liquid handler and the Pipetmax 278 is a larger (higher capacity) 8-ch liquid handler.

As for why you can’t find any Pipetmax 268 comment on this forum? I think it is maybe because this forum focusses on more difficult solutions, where help in programming, integrations etc are necessary. Whereas the Pipetmax 268 is more of a simple/easy to use solution.

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Thank you @MattSmith_Gilson , it’s good to see the new model being launched! Any plans for Pipetmax 2996 :smiley: ? And what are the 3-application based packages that you mentioned?

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A Pipetmax 2996 sounds like a nice machine! :grinning_face: It ultimately comes down to demand, but we do have the 96-channel technology already, as used in the new Pipetman M96 - PIPETMAN M96, P96x20M, 2-20 µL - High-Throughput 96-Channel Motorized Pipette.

As for the 3 Pipetmax application based packages - these are

  1. Bioassay (ELISA, IC50 etc)
  2. qPCR
  3. NGS

Each package being based on what our typical Pipetmax customers in each application have needed in the past.