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Agilent Technologies 6890N manual available for free PDF download: Troubleshooting Manual
Agilent Technologies 6890N Troubleshooting Manual (102 pages)
Gas Chromatograph
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
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1 Concepts and General Tasks
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Agilent Technologies
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Concepts
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How to Troubleshoot Using this Manual
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The [Status] Key
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Configurable Items to Always Keep Current
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Column Configuration
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Automatic Liquid Sampler Configuration
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Gas Configuration
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Information to Obtain before Calling Agilent for Service
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2 Hardware Symptoms
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Plunger Errors
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Vial Mishandled by als
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Syringe Needle Bends During Injection into Inlet
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FID Does Not Ignite
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FID Ignitor Does Not Glow During Ignition Sequence
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Corrosion in FID Collector and Ignitor Glow Plug
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FPD Does Not Ignite
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NPD Adjust Offset Process Fails
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3 Chromatographic Symptoms
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Retention Times Not Repeatable
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Peak Areas Not Repeatable
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Contamination or Carryover
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Isolate the Source
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Check Possible Causes-All Inlet and Detector Combinations
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Larger Peaks than Expected
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Peaks Not Displayed/No Peaks
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Baseline Rise During Oven Temperature Program
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Poor Peak Resolution
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Peak Tailing
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Npd
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Peak Boiling Point or Molecular Weight Discrimination Poor
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For any Inlet Operating in Split Mode with any Detector
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For any Inlet Operating in Splitless Mode with any Detector
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Sample Decomposition in Inlet/Missing Peaks
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Peak Fronting
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Noisy Detector, Including Wander, Drift, and Baseline Spikes
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Noisy Baseline
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Baseline Wander and Drift
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Baseline Spiking
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Figure 1. Cyclic Spiking
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Check for the Correct Jet. Low Peak Area or Height
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FID Flame Goes out During a Run and Attempts to Reignite
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FID Baseline Output above 20 Pa
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FPD Flame Goes out During a Run and Attempts to Reignite
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FPD Output too High or too Low
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FPD Low Peak Areas
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FPD Large Peak Width at Half-Height
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FPD Baseline Output High, > 20 Pa
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NPD Solvent Quenching
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NPD Response Low
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NPD Baseline Output > 8 Million
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NPD Adjust Offset Process Not Functioning Properly
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NPD Low Selectivity
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Negative Peaks Seen with TCD
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TCD Baseline Has Dampened Sinusoidal Noise Trailing Peaks (Ringing Baseline)
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TCD Peaks Have Negative Dip on Tail
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4 GC Not Ready Symptoms
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GC Never Becomes Ready
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Flow Never Becomes Ready
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Oven Temperature Never Cools Down/Cools very Slowly
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Oven Never Heats up
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Temperature Never Becomes Ready
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Cannot Set a Flow or Pressure
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A Gas Does Not Reach Setpoint Pressure or Flow
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A Gas Exceeds Pressure Setpoint or Flow
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The Inlet Pressure or Flow Fluctuates
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Cannot Maintain a Pressure as Low as the Setpoint on a Split Inlet
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The Measured Column Flow Does Not Equal the Displayed Flow
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FID Does Not Ignite
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FID Ignitor Does Not Glow During Injection Sequence
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NPD Adjust Offset Process Fails
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FPD Does Not Ignite
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5 Shutdown Symptoms
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Column Shutdown
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Hydrogen Shutdown
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Thermal Shutdowns
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6 Nonfunctional GC Symptoms
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GC Does Not Turn on
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PC Cannot Communicate with GC
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7 Checking for Leaks
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Leak Check Tips
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To Check for External Leaks
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To Check for GC Leaks
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Leaks in Capillary Flow (Microfluidic) Fittings
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8 Troubleshooting Tasks
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To Measure a Column Flow
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Measuring FID, TCD, Uecd, and FPD Column Flow
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Measuring NPD Column Flow
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To Measure a Split Vent or Septum Purge Flow
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To Measure a Detector Flow
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Measuring FID, TCD, Uecd, and FPD Flows
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Measuring NPD Flows
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To Perform the GC Self-Test
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To Adjust the FID Lit Offset
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To Verify that the FID Flame Is Lit
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To Verify FID Ignitor Function During Ignition Sequence
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To Measure FID Leakage Current
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To Measure FID Baseline Output
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To Measure NPD Leakage Current
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To Verify that the NPD Bead Is Ignited
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To Verify that the FPD Flame Is Lit
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To Adjust the FPD Lit Offset
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