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Operation and maintenance
Bath care, filtration, safety, the foil test, troubleshooting: keeping a machine cleaning as it did on day one.
6 articles
Operation and maintenance · 4 min readTroubleshooting: the machine runs but the parts are not cleanNine causes cover almost every case, and seven of them are the bath or the loading, not the machine. A checklist in the order that finds the fault fastest, from the sound of the tank to the generator display.
Operation and maintenance · 3 min readThe foil test: a one-minute check of cavitationA sheet of household aluminium foil in the bath for sixty seconds shows where the tank cleans and where it does not. How to run it, what the hole pattern means, and how to use it as the acceptance test for a new machine and the monthly check for an old one.
Operation and maintenance · 4 min readSafety around an ultrasonic cleaning tankHot alkaline liquid, a running bath that causes pain and tissue damage to a hand put into it, noise above the hearing range that is still noise, fumes, and heavy baskets over an open tank. The hazards of an industrial cleaner, and the habits and fittings that control them.
Operation and maintenance · 4 min readEnergy and running costs of an ultrasonic cleaning tankThe heater, not the ultrasound, is the cost. What a 96-litre and a 300-litre tank draw over a shift, where the kilowatt-hours go, and the four habits that cut the bill by a third: lid, timed heat-up, the right temperature, and a bath that lasts.
Operation and maintenance · 3 min readDaily and weekly maintenance of an ultrasonic cleanerAn ultrasonic tank has no wear parts in the liquid, so maintenance is about the bath, the floor, the filter and the heater. A routine that takes ten minutes a day and half an hour a week, and what to look at once a month.
Operation and maintenance · 2 min readAccessories for ultrasonic cleaningCooling systems and bubble tanks: two add-ons that bring the bath back to its set temperature and loosen remaining residue without manual rinsing.