This discussion board has been conceived as a focal point for E306 users to air their frustrations, find solutions to problems, or publicise their greatest achievements using the 306

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This discussion board has been conceived as a focal point for E306 users, let us know your proudest achievements, worst problem or anything else in between and we will post it on our discussion board along with ours and our visitors comments.

Please e-mail your comments to: sales@e306.co.uk

26/07/05- Mike from Loughborough

"I am having reliability problems with my Edwards rotating turret thermal evaporator source. Problems experienced are power connection can not be made after rotating to a new source after a long deposition and sometimes rotating the sources causes a short to ground. Can you recommend a way to improve the reliability?"

Reply from E306

Dear Mike, you are not alone in experiencing these problems and it is a very common problem with this source. As yet we have not found a solution even after reconditioning the source, the problem soon returns. The only way to overcome it totally is to refit your system with our TE4 four pocket thermal source. This option gives total reliability and also co deposition capability.

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