User manual

Troubleshooting the VITEK
®
2 Instrument Using Error Message and Recovery Table
VITEK
®
2 Instrument User Manual 8-37
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Processing
Warning (Cont.)
Incubator Temperature
LOW
Ensure that the ambient room temperature is above 20 °C. Wait
15 minutes and recheck. If the incubator temperature has not
returned to normal, call bioMérieux for assistance.
Test cards that are still processing in the carousel will be
terminated after this error occurs. A laboratory report will be
printed with the message:
CARD TERMINATED: Insufficient incubation time
for analysis.
For AST cards, any antibiotics that were finalized prior to the error
will be reported.
Internal Instrument
Temperature is HIGH
Ensure that the ambient room temperature is below 30 °C. Wait
15 minutes and recheck. If the instrument temperature has not
returned to normal, call bioMérieux for assistance.
Insufficient slots to process
this cassette
Refer to procedures for Card Capacity Errors on page 8-16.
You should check the Status screen before loading a cassette to
make sure you have a sufficient number of slots available.
Power Fail. System will
park until power is restored
Normal processing will resume when power is restored.
See page 8-28 for description of how instrument handles power
failures.
The Uninterruptible Power
Supply has a Low Battery
Call bioMérieux for assistance if this error occurs when there is
not a power failure. (This would be a normal error during a power
failure.)
See page 8-28 for description of how instrument handles power
failures.
Instrument status is
cleaning
The instrument did not detect one of the carousel sections. Refer
to Cleaning the Carousel on page 7-10.
Table 8-2: Error Message and Recovery Table (Continued)
Error Code
Recovery Procedure
Primary Secondary