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Hardware Upgrades
Setting Up Continuous Flushing
Thermo Scientific
Accela 600 and 1250 Pump Hardware Manual
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Setting Up Continuous Flushing
If your Accela pump includes a seal wash pump, you can set up continuous flushing of the
piston guide bushings. Thermo Fisher Scientific recommends this setup if you use mobile
phases with a high concentration of salts.
The Seal Wash Pump Kit (see
pump, the tubing and fittings that you must have to set up the seal wash pump, and the cable
that connects the seal wash pump to the Controller board.
To set up continuous flushing
1. Connect a reservoir of distilled water to the In port of the seal wash pump.
2. Remove the inner wash line from the guide bushings (see
).
Figure 51.
Guide bushings with the inner wash line removed
Inner wash line removed
In port of the seal wash pump