Hamilton Shaker Heater Cooler

Revolution has a driver for a Hamilton deck module identified as the Shaker Heater Cooler (SHHC) — a combined shaking and heating/cooling unit.

No published specifications

Hamilton does not currently publish a product page under this name, so no temperature range, shaking speed, orbit or footprint is stated here. Reproducing figures from a neighbouring Hamilton module would be a guess, and a wrong specification is worse than an absent one.

For the modules Hamilton does document, see:

• Hamilton Heater Shaker — heating and shaking, one deck position
• Hamilton Heater Cooler — temperature control from 0 °C to 110 °C, one deck position
• Hamilton Incubator Shaker — multi-slot incubation and shaking

If you are specifying a system around an SHHC, confirm the unit’s ratings with Hamilton or with us before committing to a method — get in touch.

Supported methods

What Revolution can do with the unit is defined by the driver, and that much is certain:

• Set temperature — set the target plate temperature
• Set speed — set the shaking speed
• Set time — set the duration for the operation
• Start — begin with the values already set
• Get status — read the unit’s current state, so a schedule can wait on it

Parameters are set first and then started, so a schedule can stage a temperature and speed before the plate arrives.

Integration

Revolution talks to the SHHC over a serial connection.

Prerequisites

• The unit must be cabled to the Revolution host and its COM port known before the device is initialised.

Device configuration

Property	Purpose
COM port	Serial port the unit is connected on

If you need more of this instrument driven from a schedule, get in touch — the driver is extended on demand.