The Intracellular Recording System includes a high impedance electrometer for easy, accurate and reliable intracellular recordings and current injections. The electrometer consists of two sections; the probe headstage and the controller which contains the signal conditioning, monitoring and power circuitry.
Input Impedance: 5 x 1011 Ω shunted by 0.5 pF
Output Resistance: 100 Ω
Gain: x1 ± 0.1%
Probe Input Range: ±10 V
Risetime (10-90%): 25 µsec, measured through 20 MΩ
Noise Level: 25 µV p-p input shorted (0.1 Hz to 10 kHz) at x1 output & 250 µV p-p, 20 MΩ at input
Capacitance Compensation: 0-50 pF
Leakage Current: 1 pA typical, adjustable to zero
Input Offset: ± 200 mV, referred to input
Electrode Resistance Test: 1 mV/MΩ (Low Range) & 10 mV/MΩ (High Range)
Buzz: Amplitude variable 0 to 15 V
Frequency variable 100 Hz to 10 kHz