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Hi guys. I need Emed Spectrum Electrosurgical Unit Service manual and Bowa Arc-400 Electrosurgical Unit Service manual. Ä°f anybody have Electrosurgical units service manuals could you send me. My e mail karakussemre@gmail.com

Hi karakusemre,

I have sent you some information, its a complicated PM to perform, and you need decent test kit. Please also note that you need to set the BOWA to a special mode to perform the electrical safety test.

Hope it helps.
Howard

Whilst we're on the subject , If some body has a EMED Endo service manual I would be very grateful.

Thanking someone in advance !!!!

Thank you Its very helpful for me.

It seems that you guys need to make friends with Emed.

@karakusemre: be aware of Frank's resources. I see a couple of "near misses" (similar models) to the ones you are asking about. How good is your German?

@Howard: a complicated PM? Care to elaborate just a little? Quite a few of us on here are interested in the topic. For years it has seemed that ESU testing has become the "last frontier" of the biomed testing scene - each manufacturer doing its own thing, different approaches by test kit manufacturers, some biomeds not testing* much at all outside of EST (and maybe a few load resistors) etc., etc. Surely by now there should be consensus, or at least a bit of consistency!

* I've probably already mentioned fresh liver from the kitchens.

Hi Geoff,
The Pm for the Bowa 400 is not too long, only 89 steps. The Bowa 400 is driven by pictures, not words, so you have to set the mode by the correct icon (icons),this is something you can do within the Datrend ESU testers, see the picture of the setup, make the setup, then set the Bowa according to the picture, then activate the Bowa. Pass fail is automatic.

The Bowa ESA has a special mode for performing safety tests, which you set, then perform the EST, then after the EST, turn the safety test mode off.

Its actually one of the simpler PM procedures. The procedure can be downloaded, emailed as required, and is written using the free Datrend software, the PM procedure is also free. If anyone wants more details please email me.

Interesting, Howard.

Only 89 steps, you say.

Do you have Datrend PM procedures for all (well, most) ESUs now?

And ... just out of interest ("asking for a friend", you might say), can the Datrend ESU analyzer (the vPad-RF, I imagine) be used with "legacy" ESUs (think ... 1970's G.U. et al)?

HI Geoff,
Yes we have many PM procedures, but I would not say all, as some manufactures dont release details of how to perform the PM routine. If the service manual is available we can program it (free), or it can be done locally using the free Datrend software. A couple of the bigger suppliers now use Datrend vPad RF to measure the output of their ESU.

Some PM procedures are quite involved, eg the force triad, taking 329 steps, but its replacement (I think) is the FT10, taking, 268 steps. Some of the steps say to set this output to this, and then press this button etc. This includes taking cross coupling and leakage measurements as prescribed.

Yes we can work with older legacy ESU's. The vPad RF is, in essence, a resistor bank with an HF coil on the input and a high (for ESA) bandwidth (12Mhz) amplifier. This bandwidth is needed for ESU such as the FT10, (10Mhz bandwidth is specified in the FT10 manual) and to measure outputs of 4Mhz Diathermy. It also allows more complex faster moving waveforms to be measured accurately.

Hello,
I am looking for EMED Endo service manual.
If anybody has it I would be very grateful.

Thanks someone in advance.