Binder C 170 E3 - Controller Malfunctions

C (E3) 08/2015 page 78/93
Fault description
Possible cause
Required measures
Heating (continued)
Unusually high gas consump-
tion.
Door gaskets defective.
Replace door gaskets.
Gas sensor defective.
Contact BINDER service.
Gas fine filter not connected cor-
rectly
Contact BINDER service.
Humidity
No or too low humidity inside. Water pan empty.
Fill the water pan with water up to
the marking on the inner pan with
distilled, sterile water. The pan
must have thorough contact to the
bottom of the inner chamber
(chap. 4.3).
Condensations inside the cham-
ber.
Water pan filled with water when
incubator is not operating
Empty water pan when incubator
is not operating.
Doors not closed.
Close door properly.
Door gaskets defective.
Replace door gaskets.
Condensation on the door.
Unit placed on very cold floor.
Place the unit on a BINDER stand
to increase the distance to the
floor.
Doors not closed.
Close door properly.
Door gaskets defective.
Replace door gaskets.
Door heating defective
Contact BINDER service.
Controller
No unit function. Dark display. Main power switch is off. Turn on the main power switch.
No entries to controller keypad
possible.
Keyboard locking activated.
Unlock keyboard locking (chap.
7.4).
No access to menu “USER”.
User code incorrect.
Contact BINDER service.
EXIT button does not cancel the
alarm indication.
Cause of disturbance not re-
moved correctly
The EXIT button permits resetting
alarm messages for temperature
and CO
2
only with in a tolerance
sector of +/- 1 °C resp. +/- 1 vol.-
%
Remove cause of disturbance. If
the EXIT button still does not can-
cel the indication, contact BINDER
service.
CO
2
concentration shown as
“-0.4”
Failure of CO
2
sensor. Contact BINDER service.
Alarm message “997” is dis-
played
Failure of temperature sensor for
door heating
Contact BINDER service.
Alarm message “998” is dis-
played
Failure of temperature sensor for
safety controller
Contact BINDER service.
Alarm message “999” is dis-
played
Failure of temperature sensor for
interior heating
Contact BINDER service.
Alarm message “ - - - ” is dis-
played
CO
2
sensor not connected
Connect the CO
2
sensor.
Alarm message “Loc”
Sterilization program started with
operating mode HAND locked
(LOCK).
Enter the password for unlocking
and then start again the steriliza-
tion.
Sterilization program started with
the CO
2
sensor still plugged-in.
Pull the CO
2
sensor and remove it
from the incubator.
Only qualified service personnel authorized by BINDER must perform repair.
Repaired units must comply with the BINDER quality standards.