Performing Maintenance
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Cleaning/replacing the suction strainer
NOTICE
Danger due to missing suction strainer / operation without a suction
strainer
The unit will be destroyed
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Never operate the unit without a suction screen.
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Check / clean the suction strainer regularly.
To protect the pump from coarse contaminant particles there is a suction
strainer in the suction port. Clean the suction strainer regularly.
Suction strainer cleaning interval
The suction screen (2.42) has a much larger absorption capacity at a mesh
width of 300 µm.
Change interval
Suction strainer
- every 250 hours*
- at least monthly*
- at every filter change*
300 µm
*) For heavily contaminated fluid, the maintenance intervals shorten.