Today we finally got to figure out what was wrong with the autoclave hooked up to three phase wiring. With Amon, the electrician that stops every once in a while at the hospital, we brought our mulitmeter into the sterilization room to figure out what was happening with the wires. The wiring was all tangled but luckily it was easy to find where it was wired wrong. They had hooked L1 into the first phase then L2 and L3 were both in the second phase. So all we had to do was put one of the wires into the third phase and test the autoclave out. After the error code sounded for about 10 minutes saying there had been a power cut and after recognizing the normal power supply, started right back up again! That was a great fix because there is a great need for sterilization, there aren’t very many autoclaves in the hospital and the new surgical ward does most of the sterilization for all of the wards. When that was all settled and tested, there was a surgical lamp that kept falling down so all that was needed was a tightening of the screws. Then it was back to the suction pump for the very last time. Testing it out for over an hour, we came to the conclusion the axel was misaligned either to begin with or being shipped over to Tanzania. One side refused to create a vacuum so instead of both sides creating suction, only one would. This created too little suction for much of anything to go through. We delivered it saying what was wrong and the head doctor said he’d be calling the company to see if there was anything to be done further. Right before we left, some nurses called my name in the storage room saying they needed some wheelchairs put together immediately so we took about 15 minutes tightening screws and assembling the premade chairs.
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Today we finally got to figure out what was wrong with the autoclave hooked up to three phase wiring. With Amon, the electrician that stops every once in a while at the hospital, we brought our mulitmeter into the sterilization room to figure out what was happening with the wires. The wiring was all tangled but luckily it was easy to find where it was wired wrong. They had hooked L1 into the first phase then L2 and L3 were both in the second phase. So all we had to do was put one of the wires into the third phase and test the autoclave out. After the error code sounded for about 10 minutes saying there had been a power cut and after recognizing the normal power supply, started right back up again! That was a great fix because there is a great need for sterilization, there aren’t very many autoclaves in the hospital and the new surgical ward does most of the sterilization for all of the wards. When that was all settled and tested, there was a surgical lamp that kept falling down so all that was needed was a tightening of the screws. Then it was back to the suction pump for the very last time. Testing it out for over an hour, we came to the conclusion the axel was misaligned either to begin with or being shipped over to Tanzania. One side refused to create a vacuum so instead of both sides creating suction, only one would. This created too little suction for much of anything to go through. We delivered it saying what was wrong and the head doctor said he’d be calling the company to see if there was anything to be done further. Right before we left, some nurses called my name in the storage room saying they needed some wheelchairs put together immediately so we took about 15 minutes tightening screws and assembling the premade chairs. |
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