INHECO Teleshake

The INHECO Teleshake is a compact on-deck microplate shaker. Revolution’s driver covers the Teleshake family, including multi-unit installations — it addresses a shaker by position, because INHECO’s shakers are designed to be chained.

At a glance

Shaking frequency	100 to 2000 rpm
Amplitude	2 – 3 mm
Shaking patterns	Linear, orbital and diagonal
Labware	96- and 384-well plates
Units per chain	Up to 14 daisy-chained
Revolution control	Shake a plate, shake at a position, read the last error

Specifications

INHECO publishes one detail beyond the At a glance table above: the Teleshake is reached through a separate control module off the workflow, or PC via RS232.

A zero positioning function is provided, which INHECO describes as being for comfortable robotic gripping — the shaker parks the plate in a known orientation so a gripper can take it reliably rather than catching it mid-orbit.

Teleshake 95

The heated Teleshake 95 is a separate model in the same family. INHECO gives it:

Shaking speed	100 rpm to 1800 rpm, orbital
Amplitude	2 mm
Temperature range	Ambient +5 K to 125 °C
Dimensions (W × D × H)	103 × 146 × 55 mm
Motor	Electromagnetic

Note the differences: the Teleshake 95 heats and the plain Teleshake does not, and their speed ranges and amplitudes are not the same. Check which model your deck carries before setting a speed near either limit.

As with the Single Plate Incubators, the Teleshake 95’s range starts at ambient +5 K — it heats but cannot cool below room temperature.

Supported methods

• Shake plate — shake the plate with the given parameters
• Shake position — shake the unit at a nominated position in the chain
• Get last error — read the last error the unit reported

Shake position is the operation that matters in a multi-shaker deck. Because up to 14 units can be daisy-chained on one interface, the position is what distinguishes them — and a position mismatch means shaking the wrong plate, which is the kind of error a schedule will not notice on its own.

Integration

Revolution talks to the Teleshake over RS232 serial, either directly or through INHECO’s control module.

Prerequisites

• The shaker, or the chain of shakers, must be cabled to the Revolution host and the port known before the device is initialised.
• In a chained installation, confirm which physical shaker answers to which position before running a method against it.
• Use the zero positioning function before a robot picks from the shaker, so the plate is parked squarely.

If you need more of this instrument driven from a schedule, get in touch — the driver is extended on demand.