Table 2.

Effect of temperature on equipment at 20 °C vs. 26 °C. One hundred and twenty-nine measurements were taken for each piece of equipment. Measurements from identical pieces of equipment were pooled for analysis

Equipment	20 °C	26 °C	Paired difference	P value
Scope 1	34.30 ± 0.02	36.16 ± 0.07	1.86 ± 0.07	<0.0001
Scope 6	35.00 ± 0.07	37.05 ± 0.16	2.05 ± 0.17	<0.0001
Scope 3, 4	35.15 ± 1.13	36.90 ± 0.21	1.75 ± 1.32	<0.0001
Scope 2, 5	33.08 ± 0.79	35.02 ± 0.36	1.94 ± 0.46	<0.0001
Slide warmer 1	34.38 ± 0.16	36.38 ± 0.08	3.39 ± 0.20	<0.0001
Slide warmer 3	32.74 ± 0.36	35.89 ± 0.47	3.14 ± 0.55	<0.0001
Slide warmer 2, 4, 5	32.82 ± 0.29	35.76 ± 0.39	2.94 ± 0.48	<0.0001
Heating block 3	34.70 ± 0.93	35.19 ± 0.90	0.49 ± 1.21	<0.0001
Heating block 5	37.12 ± 0.08	37.67 ± 0.05	0.55 ± 0.09	<0.0001
Dry incubator 2	36.79 ± 0.17	37.7 ± 0.16	0.88 ± 0.27	<0.0001
Incubator 1	37.0 ± 0.08	37.0 ± 0	0.008 ± .09	0.32
Incubator 11	36.60 ± 0.02	37.0 ± 0.009	0.10 ± 0.009	<0.0001
Incubator 12	36.4 ± 0	36.6 ± 0	0.20 ± 0.0	<0.0001