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Performing Routine Maintenance
Maintenance Button
Cleaning Stainless Steel Components
Maintenance Button
Powering On the TRACE 1600/1610
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• Gloves, heat-resistant (for handling hot parts)
To clean stainless steel components, you will need:
• Acetone, reagent grade (or other suitable polar solvent)
• Applicators, cotton-tipped
• De-ionized water
• Detergent (Alconox™, Micro®, or equivalent)
• Gas, clean and dry (N
• Gloves, clean, lint- and powder-free, latex or nitrile
• Lint-free cloth
• Ultrasonic cleaner
When pressed, the Maintenance button allows cooling at 60 °C of the selected heated zones,
which allows the required maintenance. Carrier and detector gases must be closed manually.
This function also performs the following actions automatically:
• turns off the flame and the fuel gases of the FID and FPD detectors.
• turns off the thermionic source, the hydrogen, and the air flows of the NPD detector.
• turns off the filaments of the TCD detector.
To power on the GC
1. Install the GC column (see
2. Open the supply gases.
3. Plug the power cable to the AC Input connector (Main socket) on the GC, and to the
wall outlet. See
Figure
4. Be sure the carrier gas flowing through the column and the detector gases flowing
through the detector.
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