Text Box: X-Ray Generator Troubleshooting Guide
 
Text Box: Additional Problems and their Solutions
Flowchart: Process: CW
Low cooling water flow, low pressure or high-temperature
Flowchart: Process: HV
Tube voltage applies is too high, reduce it Flowchart: Process: LV
Tube voltage applies is low
Flowchart: Process: TC
Tube Current applied is too high, reduce it Flowchart: Process: FC
Low filament current. Burnt filament
Flowchart: Process: OL
Over load, TC and TV combination is too high, reduce it Flowchart: Process: LC
Low current (200 VAC, 3 Ø)
Flowchart: Process: VC
Bad or low vacuum, degas the ion gage (IG) Flowchart: Process: TR
Low target rotation. Broken belt or motor problem
Flowchart: Process: Note nature of Alarm. Press RESET. Take corrective actions
Flowchart: Process: IMB X-Ray Crystallography Facility | Apr. 2005
410-413 KLB | Inst. Mol. Biophysics
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