buying a thermocycler

[anne at lmb1.rug.ac.be]

Has anuone  experience with the Peltier thermocycler PTC-200 from 
MJ Research?  Since the cycler is not yet very often used in Europe, we 
especially want to know if  the cycler is reliable and PCR will stay 
reproducible throughout the years (meaning that the timeperiod of one PCR 
round should be the exactly the same in years) . 
Did anyone do experiments with this thermocycler in comparison with other 
cyclers, for instance with Perkin Elmer cyclers?

Thanks for any advice,

Anne lenaerts
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Gent, Belgium, Europe