The Grant RTS-1 Personal Bioreactor, EU Plug (4.671 974 / RTS-1 EU) is a compact personal bioreactor for real-time microbial growth monitoring in 50 mL tubes. It uses Reverse-Spin agitation, OD850 optical density measurement, and programmable cultivation parameters, and is supplied with 20 TubeSpin Bioreactor 50 vessels by TPP.
Key Features
- Brand: Grant Instruments
- Product Type: Personal bioreactor
- Model: RTS-1 EU
- Catalogue Number: 4.671 974
- Included Vessels: 20 TubeSpin Bioreactor 50 vessels by TPP
- Plug Type: EU plug
- Working Volume: 5 to 30 mL
- Tube Format: 50 mL tubes with membrane filter
- Agitation Type: Reverse-Spin sample rotation
- Speed Range: 50 to 2,000 rpm in 10 rpm increments
- Speed Precision: ±15 rpm
- Reverse Spin Time: 1 to 60 s in 1 s increments
- Temperature Setting Range: +25 to +70 °C
- Temperature Control Range: Ambient +5 °C to +70 °C
- Temperature Stability: ±0.1 °C
- Measurement Wavelength: 850 ± 15 nm
- Factory Calibration Range: 0 to 10 OD at 10 to 20 mL; 0 to 8 OD at 20 to 30 mL
- Measurement Precision: ±0.3 OD850
- Display: LCD
- Power Supply: 120 to 230 V, 50/60 Hz
- Power Consumption: 40 W
- Dimensions: 130 x 212 x 200 mm
- Weight: 1.7 kg
Note: This is the RTS-1 EU configuration without active cooling. Active cooling applies to the RTS-1C model.
Benefits
- Supports real-time microbial growth logging in 50 mL bioreactor tubes for small-scale cultivation studies.
- Reverse-Spin agitation helps mix cell suspension non-invasively around the tube axis.
- Programmable temperature, RPM, and Reverse-Spin frequency support repeatable cultivation parameter profiling.
- OD850 optical monitoring enables growth kinetics to be followed without interrupting the cultivation process.
- Software features support real-time data storage, 3D growth visualisation, PDF and Excel reporting, and multi-unit connection.
- Included TubeSpin Bioreactor 50 vessels support 1 to 35 mL working volumes and filter-cap gas exchange.
Why Choose the Grant RTS-1 Personal Bioreactor, EU Plug (4.671 974 / RTS-1 EU)?
The Grant RTS-1 Personal Bioreactor provides compact, individual bioreactor control for microbial growth kinetics, strain screening, media optimisation, inhibition testing, and synthetic biology workflows. John Morris Group supplies this EU plug configuration with 20 TubeSpin Bioreactor 50 vessels for laboratories requiring a ready-to-use small-scale cultivation platform.
