How to extend the life of your HORIBA Raman spectrometer and what mistakes to avoid?
We know how important it is for you to work with an instrument that is in perfect condition, ensuring optimal analysis and research results with minimum disruption to your business. That's why we strongly recommend regular maintenance of your HORIBA Raman instrument. To help you do this, we've identified the most common mistakes that you should avoid to prolong the life of your HORIBA Raman spectrometer.
Firstly, the biggest mistake you should avoid is placing your instrument against a wall. In fact, we recommend that you leave a space behind your instrument to allow operators and outsiders, such as our service engineers, to have access to walk behind it. As a rule, it's important to follow the installation and operating conditions recommended by HORIBA.
Next, we recommend annual maintenance by our HORIBA service engineers. This involves one preventive maintenance visit per year. You have the option of booking maintenance only or taking out a maintenance contract that includes at least one preventive maintenance visit.
In addition, we advise you not to increase the number of operators working on your HORIBA equipment. even if they are well trained and experienced. You can appoint a contact person to act as the liaison between your company, your needs and our service engineers.
To extend the life of the lasers in your HORIBA Raman spectrometer, we highly recommend that you switch them off at the end of each day.
Another important element in maintaining your instrument is to leave your system switched ON as much as possible so as to maintain a constant temperature inside the system. This will help to maintain the alignment and stability of your instrument.
We also advise you to keep the CCD at its working temperature, i.e. -60/-70°C, for as long as possible to ensure daily measurement quality.
Additionally, we recommend that you never dismantle or replace microscope objectives. The risk would be to misalign your entire Raman system.
Our experts' final tip for prolonging the lifetime of your spectrometer is to keep your system in a clean, healthy environment, at a stable ambient temperature (around 21°C), to guarantee its stability and smooth operation.
Repeated misuse of your HORIBA Raman spectrometer could result in premature failures, measurement errors, sample damage, production downtime or high repair costs.
If you would like to take out a maintenance contract or find out more about our service offers for your instrument, please click here or contact us using the form.
