Dry Baths & Block Heaters for Laboratory Sample Heating & Incubation

Dry Baths and Dry Block Heaters are known for offering accurate and consistent heating of samples in a tidy and well-maintained manner compared to conventional water baths. Dry Baths and Dry Block Heaters are benchtop devices that utilize aluminum heating blocks to achieve consistent temperatures for microtubes, PCR tubes, vials, and microplates, making them suited for use in life science, clinical, and laboratory applications. Here is the Dry Baths & Block Heaters product range that consists of digital dry baths, dry bath incubators, and dry block heaters.

Contemporary digital dry baths and dry block heaters are capable of temperature control and timing functions, and they use interchangeable modular blocks that can adapt an instrument to different protocols. Dry heating systems are utilized in such applications as preparing a sample, incubation, enzyme reaction analysis, DNA analysis, immunoassays, and boiling point analysis.

Types of Dry Baths and Block Heaters in this collection include:

• Digital dry baths / dry block heaters equipped with microprocessors to maintain consistent temperatures on the heating block
• Low-throughput single-block dry bath systems for use in small labs that require a small footprint and single tube testing
• Dual and multi-block heaters supporting 2, 4 or more blocks for simultaneous runs of different methods or for different tube sizes
• Heating and cooling dry baths for use in protocols that require sub-ambient or controlled temperature ramps
• Touch screens and programmable dry bath incubators that include timers and programs/alarm functions for repeated tasks
• Interchangeable aluminum pieces and accessories for microcentrifuge tubes, PCR strips, vials, microplates, and special labware

Common uses of dry baths and block heaters:

• Sample incubation for molecular biology, clinic, and environmental applications
• Reacciones de enzimas, Denaturación y amplificación de DNA
• Protein and immunoassay analysis processes, histology and coagulation testing
• Determination of melting and boiling points, tests for culture media and other heating jobs

Principal advantages for your lab:

• It heats accurately and equally without the use of water and thus contaminants
• Conserves bench space because it integrates several block formats in one digital dry bath platform
• Reproducibility improves due to precise temperature control, calibration functions, and timers
• Enables flexible layouts in order to accommodate many types of assays and tube sizes on one instrument
• Functions as an easy and safe substitute for hot plates and heating mantles, and for water baths in many applications

Some other factors to be taken into account when choosing this equipment:

• Temperature range and stability: minimum and maximum temperature points, temperature stability (for example, ±0.2 °C), temperature ramping for each of your assays
• Capacity and configuration: single, dual, or multi-block systems and compatibility with available blocks and tubes
• Control interface: Compare basic digital controls and touchscreens, programmable profiles and multi-step procedures
• Timer and safety functions: integrated timers, audible alarms and over-temperature protection for unattended operation
• Footprint and accessories: total size on the workbench, availability of replacement blocks, block lifters and covers.

Explore our Dry Baths & Block Heaters range and compare digital dry baths, dry bath incubators, and dry block heaters head to head. Meet the needs of your laboratory for accurate and dependable dry heating devices that promote standardized preparations and analysis of biological materials.