- Failure of a pair of Eppindorf centrifuges. - 4 Updates
| peter@easthope.ca: Nov 22 03:05PM -0700 Hi, The photo here is one of a pair of Eppindorf 5415D centrifuges. http://easthope.ca/Eppindorf5415D.jpg This morning both machines failed to operate. No response when the main power switch is flipped on. Empty display. No power indicator light. Fuses are OK. The machines are in separate rooms. There is power at the receptacles they connect to. No other equipment is failing. Ideas? Thanks, ... P. |
| "Peter W." <peterwieck33@gmail.com>: Nov 23 04:33AM -0800 Same age? Close serial numbers? As to power - did you plug in another piece of equipment, or just check with some sort of tester? If the neutral is out, you may have "power", but not usable power. Suggestions in no particular order: a) Find the main panel that feeds those circuits and the individual breaker(s). Cycle them. b) Move the machines to another known-good receptacle. c) Check the power cords. If they are not hard-wired, try removing/plugging back in. d) Check the lid interlock(s). If they are sticking, the machines will not start. In the case of some of the machines here, they will not even light up if the interlock is not either fully open or fully engaged. e) Replace the fuses anyway. They get tired and may not show as blown, but may still be open. Good Luck! Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA |
| Bob Engelhardt <BobEngelhardt@comcast.net>: Nov 23 09:10AM -0500 >[...] > The machines are in separate rooms. There is power at the receptacles > they connect to. No other equipment is failing. "Separate rooms"!! That is truly confounding. Ordinarily, the 2 rooms situation would imply 2 power circuits (breakers). But with identical, spontaneous failures of both machines, they are _most likely_ on the same circuit. So the breaker is tripped, or defective. |
| legg <legg@nospam.magma.ca>: Nov 23 09:37AM -0500 >they connect to. No other equipment is failing. >Ideas? >Thanks, ... P. If mains is truly not to blame, I suggest that the 'failure' is not simultaneous - just that you noticed both not working for the first time. Gremlins killed unit #1. Unit #2 was then used till IT failed. ... then you came in . . . . RL |
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