(Torrey Pines Scientific: Carlsbad, CA) -- Torrey Pines Scientific announces its Echotherm Model IC20XR compact, Peltier-driven, chilling/heating dry bath. It can freeze, chill, or heat samples from -10°C to 110°C (14°F–230°F) at your workstation, and can be supplied with the broadest variety of precision-made aluminum sample blocks available anywhere. The Model IC20XR can be used with assay plates of all types, centrifuge tubes of all sizes, vials, test tubes, and almost any other sample container. It's particularly well suited to the molecular biology lab for hybridizations, sample prep for PCR, ligations, enzyme reactions, and much more.

The Model IC20XR has digital display and control of temperature to 1°C (34°F). It comes with a countdown timer in days, hours, minutes, and seconds to 30 days; data logger; and RS232 I/O port to control the unit by computer or to record data. The compact unit measures 6.5 in. (165 mm) wide by 8.75 in. (222 mm) deep by 3.5 in. (89 mm) tall.

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