Troubleshooting Guide For The Sample Transport Assembly - Agilent Technologies G1313A Reference Manual

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Troubleshooting Guide for the Sample Transport Assembly

Troubleshooting Guide for the Sample
Transport Assembly
This troubleshooting guide is meant to help you diagnose and repair
autosampler problems.
In general, autosampler problems can be divided into three categories.
1 Intermittent lock-ups with or without vial in the gripper fingers
with error messages
❏ motor overtemp (0 or 1 or 2 or 3)
❏ movement failed (0 or 1 or 2 or 3)
❏ missing vial
Many times the sampler is being used very heavily.
2 Jittery (shaky) movement in X and/or theta axes and/or when the
needle goes through the gripper arm into the vial with error
messages
❏ motor overtemp (0 or 2)
❏ movement failed (0 or 2)
3 Poor alignment, seen during vial pickup and vial replacement
and/or when the needle hits the gripper arm with error messages
❏ motor overtemp (0 or 2 or 3)
❏ movement failed (0 or 2 or 3)
❏ missing vial
Motor 0=X; 1=Z; 2=Theta; 3=Gripper.
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