Power Supplies
Summary
In order to meet the ever increasing demand for more compact, more powerful, more reliable, more user-friendly and less expensive power supplies, Labtech has turned to the EC for their future manufacturer. The result is the Apelex range of electrophoresis power supplies.
Labtech offers full assistance in the selection of a power supply to meet your application and can also supply a range of adapters, if necessary, to enable these power supplies to meet your particular gel apparatus.
Features and benefits
- Designed using the very latest electronic circuitry.
- Automatic crossover on set limits.
- Digital displays of set and actual values.
- Recessed insulated power outlet sockets for maximum protection.
- Simplified operation utilising membrane touch pad controls.
- Low profile, low weight and compact, designed to fit on a laboratory shelf.
- Meets all safety and CE mark certification.
- A model to meet every electrophoresis technique includingTransfer Blotting and DNA Sequencing.
- Programmable models available.
- All models covered by a two-year warranty that guarantees reliability and high quality.
Power supply models PS304, PS503 and PS305 for Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis.
- Low cost, high performance output power utilising the latest electronic circuitry.
- Membrane touch control pad.
- Compact, lightweight and stackable.
- Unique feature - a constant voltage of 1V is supplied after the gel time has elapsed to prevent gel diffusion or line weave.
- Last settings automatically restored on power on.
- Bright digital displays.
- Dual safety outlets.
- Constant volts and current outputs.
- Automatic crossover on set limits.
Power supply model PS608 for Nucleic Acid Electrophoresis.
Designed specifically for submerged agarose techniques, model PS608 has three sets of power outputs and a maximum output power of 300 watts, which is sufficient to run three mini gels simultaneously without risk of overload or burn out.
- Membrane touch pad controls.
- Bright LED digital displays for ‘Set/Actual’ parameters.
- Constant outputs – voltage/current.
- Automatic crossover on set limits.
- Recessed power outlets for maximum safety.
- Automatic restart in case of power failure during a cycle.
- Full safety protection – earth leakage circuit breaker – cut out on short circuit – open circuit or overload.
This powerful, yet very compact electrophoresis power supply offers the most versatile and reliable model available anywhere.
Power supply model PS1006 for general purpose use.
A high powered, versatile and truly multi-purpose power supply to meet the requirements of most electrophoresis techniques within molecular biology.
- Constant outputs on voltage and current.
- Digital displays of set/actual parameters.
- Membrane tactile touch pad controls.
- Full safety protection.
- Automatic crossover on set limits.
- Control accuracy to within 1 volt output.
Also available programmable power supplies.

Specifications
Power supplies for nucleic acid electrophoresis PS304, PS503 and PS305
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PS304 |
PS503 |
PS305 |
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Outputs |
Constant Volts Constant Current |
300/1V 400/1mAmp |
500/1V 300/1mAmp |
300/1V 500/1mAmp |
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Maximum power (watts) |
120 |
150 |
150 |
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Displays |
Bright LED on all parameters; status indicator lamps |
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Safety protection |
Automatic crossover on set limits; automatic re-start on power failure; earth leakage protection, shut down of circuit breaker (500µAmps) |
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Ambient temperature tolerance (ºC) |
0-40 |
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Dimensions, WxDxH (mm) |
170 x 240 x 70 |
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Weight (kg) |
1.6 |
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Power supplies for nucleic acid electrophoresis PS608 and general purpose PS1006
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PS608 |
PS1006 |
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Outputs |
Constant Volts Constant Current Contstat Power |
0-600Volts – 1 Volt resolution 0-800mAmps – 1mAmp resolution 0.3-300Watts – 1 watt resolution |
0-1000Volts - 1 Volt resolution 0-600mAmps- 1mAmp resolution |
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Maximum power (watts) |
300 |
300 |
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Timer (Minutes) |
0-9999 |
0-9999 in 1 min steps |
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Output sockets |
Three pairs, 4mm recessed sockets |
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Displays |
Bright LED on all parameters;status mode indicator |
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Audible alarms |
On safety function operation |
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Safety protection |
Automatic crossover on set limits; automatic re-start on power failure; earth leakage protection, shut down of circuit breaker. |
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Ambient temperature tolerance (ºC) |
0-40 |
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Dimensions, WxDxH (mm) |
270 x 340 x 110 |
250 x 240 x 120 |
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Weight (kg) |
4 |
4 |
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Ordering Information
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1600000 |
Model PS304 Power supply |
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1720000 |
Model PS503 Power supply |
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1700000 |
Model PS305 Power supply |
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1730000 |
Model PS608 Power supply |
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174000 |
Model PS1006 General purpose power supply (complete with leads and manual) |
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119020 |
Surface temperature probe |
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