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My company has recently came in possession of this machine. The downfall, it has not been ran for over a year. With this there could be endless possibilities of malfunctions. So far, I have installed pure chromatograph grade helium and replaced the septums in the injectors. Not much done so far. When starting the machine and selecting a method, I get an error in the message log saying "Mass spec may need to be calibrated". So I go into the auto tuning page and run the autotune. Everything was passing until it came to the ion gauge test results.
The ion gauge test
failed (the ion gauge is not producing the proper emission current. Vacuum readings may be unstable or in error.)
Then onto the Vacuum test
failed (the turbo controller is reporting a speed of *d**. The controller may be defective.)
Once the vacuum test failed it was unable to run anymore tests until the problem is fixed.
What should be my next step? The worst case scenario I would be replacing the power board, but I am trying to run through everything else first. I am thinking the vacuum pump fluid needs to be replaced, I need to clean the Ion Trap, both filaments checked out OK, but thinking about replacing them anyways. Also, could having an old column produce these errors?
thanks!
Jake