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BACTEC®
9050
System User's Manual
E12 E r r o r vial
or
error station
NOTE
The E 12 message is the corresponding System Alert to the
Resolving Station Errors activity discussed in Section
4.7.
POSSIBLE CAUSE(S)
0000000 I , 00000002, 00000004, 00000008
• S y s t e m cannot detect a vial in a station where one should be.The vial
may not be seated in the station completely, or may have been pulled
out of the instrument without being scanned out.
CORRECTIVE ACTION(S)
O I f vial is in station, or was removed but you have now located it, use the
resolve station errors activity to scan the vial label.lf the station was in
a "hardware" error condition (such as with errors E05 and E06), the
current station will be blocked from use and the vial will be relocated
to a new station (if one is available). If the station was in a "software"
error condition (error E12 with any of the sub-codes listed above), the
error condition is cleared after you scan the label and confirm the
error resolution.
O I f the vial cannot be located, press the "force station available" soft key.
This forces the vial's protocol to be terminated and clears the
error condition.Vials that are cleared in this manner are reported as
follows on the System Status Report: vials with a status of positive are
reported as positives; vials with a status of negative are reported as
negatives; vials with a status of ongoing are reported as errors.
O A l w a y s be sure to press against the vial shoulders when placing vials
into stations, to insure that they are fully seated.
O T o avoid station errors, always use one o f the remove vial activities
(such as remove positives or remove negatives) to scan the vial out of
the station prior to physically removing it.
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