Drying The Diffuser - Agilent Technologies InfinityLab 1290 Infinity II User Manual

Evaporative light scattering detectors

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Maintenance

Drying the Diffuser

If the instrument has been operated incorrectly, the diffuser may become

blocked with liquid. This is manifested by loss of signal, increased baseline noise

and in the extreme case gas bubbling out of the nebulizer drain tube. If this

happens, proceed as follows:

1 Increase the gas flow to 2.8 SLM and increase the evaporator to maximum

2 Reset the instrument to the correct operating conditions and allow to stabilize

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temperature.

The diffuser will be dried out and the instrument ready to use after

approximately 1 h under these conditions.

before continuing.

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