CAUTION

Damaged Gas Tubes and Compressed Gas

Trying to remove the slide-in module with the gas tubes being connected to the detector can damage the gas tubes and the connectors on the detector. Using damaged gas tubes with compressed air can pose health and safety risks.

Disconnect the gas tubes always before you remove the slide-in module from the enclosure.

CAUTION

Heavy Load, Bulky Device

The device is too heavy or bulky for one person alone to handle safely. To avoid personal injury or damage to the device, observe the following guidelines:

  • Physical handling of the device, including lifting or moving, requires a team effort of two persons.
  • A team effort is in particular required when lifting the device into the system stack or when removing it.

Tools required

Screwdriver, Torx T20

Preparations

  1. Prepare the device for transport. See Transporting or Shipping the Device.

Follow these steps

  1. Loosen the four captive screws on the front left and front right of the device.

  2. Captive screws on the slide-in module (doors not shown)
    Figure: Captive screws on the slide-in module (doors not shown)
  3. Push all tubing and capillaries, which are present in the tubing chase of the Vanquish system modules, into the tubing chase. Otherwise, you will not be able to remove the slide-in module properly from the enclosure in the next step.

  4. Grasp the slide-in module by the protective cover of the gas filter assembly, and pull the module out of the enclosure by approximately 10 cm.

Pulling out the slide-in module (doors not shown)
Figure: Pulling out the slide-in module (doors not shown)

NOTICE

The slide-in module can fall down when pulling it out of the enclosure too far.

Pull out the slide-in module just far enough so that you can grasp it on both sides from below.

  1. Remove the slide-in module from the enclosure. The following steps require a team effort:

  1. Take the slide-in module on both sides from below.
  2. Pull the slide-in module from the rails towards the front.
  3. Place the slide-in module on a clean and stable surface.