Dear Colleagues,
This question is aimed at those of you who have been involved with an NIH HEI proposal submission. We are considering such a submission, and I have been involved in discussions with others pertaining to the AUT (accessible user time) concept NIH employs for assessing instrument usage. It seems to me that for a modern commercial NMR spectrometer, with current automation and remote operation capabilites, that for an academic facility the AUT should be close to essentially all the time (24/7/365), minus some amount of hours for cryogenic maintenance, cryoprobe (if equipped) annual service, and instrument testing, validation and development. In other words, somewhere in the vicinity of, roughly, 8400 hours per year. Can anyone please let me know if my assessment is reasonable, or am I way off base?
Thank you, in advance, very much.
Sincerely,
John S. Harwood, D.Sc.
Director, Purdue Interdepartmental NMR Facility
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