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I inspected a HP 6890A today that I want to buy to resell and will do so if I can deem it still working properly or minimum cost to fix, but not if it will be expensive to fix. Trying to see if power up procedure indicates if working properly.
The seller stated it was working when decommissioned ~5years ago. He said it probably gave error because there is no injector on it (which there is not). He is the asset manager at a government agency so there is no "profit" potential in his comments but you never know.
Powering up:
I turned on and it did some selftest and/or startup procedures. I don't remember timing but a minute or something later the startup cycle stopped with a "Shutdown 4" message. I forget the latter wording but whatever that message says, something to the extent of "not adequate inlet pressure". It made a periodic single beep I think. Wondering if this means it's broken or just not properly setup to run correctly. Is it as simply as being because the item has been sitting for years without an injector and not adequately "sealed" so it needs to be "sealed" back up to get it to hold pressure once again? I assume it could maybe also be a leak? I hope not that as that is expensive to fix?
If you have knowledge of these from turning on without extended use or if injector missing and know how the 6890 typically reacts please let me know. Also your opinion if no big deal as a common message on properly working GC's to have this scenario. Or is it likely to be a costly warning?
Thanks
Brian