System Wellness, Predictive Performance, And Diagnostics - Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 Series Operating Instructions Manual

UltiMate 3000 Series:
VWD-3100 and VWD-3400RS Variable Wavelength Detectors

2.12 System Wellness, Predictive Performance, and Diagnostics

System Wellness monitors the health of the detector. Therefore, the detector supports
several performance and reliability features that can help you detect small problems before
they turn into big ones:
• Internal monitoring of all mechanical operations
• Automatic self test upon power up
• Lamp type identification and documentation of the lamp properties (→ page 71)
• Lamp intensity monitoring (→ page 79)
• Flow cell identification and documentation of the flow cell type (→ page 71)
Leak sensor (→ page 30)
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• General information for detector diagnostics (→ page 71)
When an error is detected, the Status LED on the front panel is red and a message appears
on the detector display (→ page 96).
When the detector is operated from Chromeleon, additional functions for estimating the
lifetime of consumables and monitoring and recording service and (re)qualification
information (= predictive performance; → page 89) are available. To check the
performance of certain detector components and the overall performance of the instrument,
Chromeleon also supports diagnostic functions (→ page 90) for the detector.
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