@Terence. Just got my Trident today and I’m super excited. This was from a fairly recent batch I believe (It was shipped from BRS on Tuesday the 4th). Unfortunately I’m not sure the leaky bottle issue has been totally resolved. There was a tiny bit of moisture both the bag with the calibration fluid as well as the bag with the reagents. The Neptune sticker that was in the bag with the reagents has some purple stains on it from the reagents as well.
It certainly wasn’t as bad as what some people have reported and there weren’t really even any visible drips collected at the bottom of the bags, but there was still some moisture and leakage where there shouldn’t have been.
Just to follow up on this, my Trident has been installed and producing stable results for 48 hours, so I went to calibrate it this afternoon and I’m a bit concerned about the viability of my calibration solution.
I took off the cap and the solution was exposed to air. It appears that there was supposed to be a seal over the top of the jar, but that seal was waterlogged and inside the cap and not sealing anything at all.
I went ahead and calibrated with it anyway since it says that it’s only good for 8 hours from when it is opened and I assume no one from Neptune will be around until Monday.
That said, Neptune, is it safe to assume that this calibration is valid and the solution was still good to use despite the leakage and seal failure?