Dionex ICS-1000 - 4 • Troubleshooting; 4.1 Alarms and Error Conditions; 4.2 Liquid Leaks; 4.3 Pump Difficult to Prime or Loses Prime

ICS-1000 Ion Chromatography System
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4.13 Baseline Noise or Drift . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-19
4.14 Vacuum Degas Assembly Does Not Run . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4-20
5•Service
5.1 Diagnostic and Calibration Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-1
5.1.1 Chromeleon Wellness Panel Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2
5.1.2 Calibrating the Conductivity Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
5.1.3 Calibrating the Flow Rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
5.1.4 Calibrating the Vacuum Degas Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5.2 Isolating a Restriction in the Liquid Lines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-7
5.3 Replacing Tubing and Fittings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-9
5.4 Rebuilding the Injection Valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-10
5.5 Cleaning and Replacing the Pump Check Valves . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
5.6 Replacing a Pump Piston Seal and Piston Rinse Seal . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-13
5.7 Replacing a Pump Piston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-17
5.8 Replacing the Waste Valve or Priming Valve O-Ring . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-18
5.9 Replacing the Conductivity Cell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
5.10 Replacing the Suppressor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
5.11 Replacing the Column Heater . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-23
5.12 Replacing the Column Heater Heat Exchanger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-25
5.13 Replacing the Eluent Valve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
5.14 Replacing the Leak Sensor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-28
5.15 Priming with Isopropyl Alcohol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
5.16 Changing Main Power Fuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30