buying a thermocycler

[jm]

> 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) . 

I have just started using it, and so far it is a fine machine. I share it
with another lab which has been doing alot of pcr over the past year. The
manual is good and a quick read.
joe