126 Agilent 4150 TapeStation System Manual
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Maintenance
Maintenance Information
Preventive Maintenance
An annual Preventive Maintenance is essential for the TapeStation system as
it has many moving parts. By design a yearly Preventive Maintenance is
planned, hence the Controller software will actively flag the due date based on
the instruments' throughput and time elapsed.
A warning message appears after a year since last electrode exchange
happened or after analysis of 50000 samples.
The preventive maintenance consists of:
• needle replacement,
• electrophoresis probe block replacement,
• firmware and software update if applicable,
• general cleaning of instrument,
• execution of functional hardware test.
For the 4150 TapeStation system most preventive maintenance tasks can be
done by the user using information provided in the user guide. For
instructions, see “Exchange the Electrode Cartridge” on page 135, “Exchange
the Piercing Needle” on page 127, “Cleaning the Instrument” on page 146 and
also “Electrode Cartridge” on page 130 for general information. In order to
update software and firmware visit www.agilent.com and review the
respective readme.pdf of any successor revision.
Your local Agilent trained service engineer will in addition to the tasks listed
above do the following in a preventive maintenance service:
• inspect the internal of the instrument for wear,
• check for foreign objects,
• do general cleaning of instrument inside and outside,
• apply dedicated sensor and positional recalibration steps,
• review dedicated log information
The Preventive Maintenance service executed by Agilent certified personal
does not include repair activities.
For customers with exceptionally high usage, the needle replacement
procedure (see “Exchange the Piercing Needle” on page 127) can also be
performed between annual Preventive Maintenance services.
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