Josh,
We've been doing this since 1995 on our Gemini-200 for undergraduate
demos. There are non-majors Organic Chemistry sections (24 students
each) who will be submitting samples for autosampler runs. We turn
off the lights and put an old oscilloscope on top of the console with
our radio shack speakers on either side turned up loud. It really
wakes them up! They hear the FID and see it on the oscilloscope. I
also run the 13C so they can hear "noise".
I also remember the NMR lab at Berkeley in the late 70's where Rudi
Nunlist had a speaker on every instrument with a little volume
control. There were many instruments in the lab and it sounded like
"Run Silent, Run Deep". Apparently it drove the workers in
neighboring labs crazy.
Neil
Neil E. Jacobsen, Ph.D.
NMR Facility Manager
Department of Chemistry
119 Old Chemistry
1306 E. University
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
520-621-8146
FAX 520-621-8407
Received on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 17:38:57 MST