Perkin Elmer 200 Series Binary Pump Problem

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Hi folks,

So I have a problem with one of our PE 200 binary pumps. We were seeing something that should have been a sharp peak appearing as a blob over 15 mins during a standard gradient run (20% MeCN to 95% MeCN and then back to 20%). I've managed to trace the problem to just the pump. When I have it run at 10 mL/min 100% Solvent A it is fine and when I have it run at 10 mL/min at 100% Solvent B it is fine. BUT. When I ask it to do a mixture, (e.g. 50:50) it seems to pull solvent exclusively from solvent A at the full flow-rate and not touch solvent B. I figured this out by turning the pump on at 10 mL/min 50:50 A:B and removing the tubing from each solvent bottle for a few seconds. For solvent A, you quickly see it pulling air but nothing happens with solvent B.

Any ideas what the problem could be?
Did you try lower flow rates ; around 2 or 3 ml/min ?
The gradient valve may not respond to such a high flow rate ( 10 ml/min )
I second uzman's suggestion that it's a proportioning valve problem. That is fairly easy to confirm by running a dwell volume measurement and a "stair step" test. Quick versions of the procedures are buried on our web site:
- https://www.lcresources.com/resources/TSWiz/hs410.htm
Image, and
- https://www.lcresources.com/resources/TSWiz/hs450.htm
-- Tom Jupille
LC Resources / Separation Science Associates
tjupille@lcresources.com
+ 1 (925) 297-5374
I second uzman's suggestion that it's a proportioning valve problem. That is fairly easy to confirm by running a dwell volume measurement and a "stair step" test. Quick versions of the procedures are buried on our web site:
- https://www.lcresources.com/resources/TSWiz/hs410.htm
Image,

and

- https://www.lcresources.com/resources/TSWiz/hs450.htmImage
-- Tom Jupille
LC Resources / Separation Science Associates
tjupille@lcresources.com
+ 1 (925) 297-5374
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