Pure Flow Leaks

[Vt Big Rig]

Can't figure this one out.

End of treatment Thursday night I get the massage that the PAK needs replacement. (side note: having a one week old fistula in left arm made changing the PAK interesting one handed).

So replaced the PAK and made the connection to prime. Hit the button and away it goes. It finishes up and tells me to clamp off blue and disconnect the priming connections. All is good.

Saturday morning I go back in to load a SAK to get ready for treatment that night and when I open the tub it has 2 inches of water in it. As soon as it started sloshing around we get the A53 alarm (water in tub). It did not alarm for more than 24 hours after PAK was primed. Cleaned it up and managed to dry it out and then made a batch but still cannot figure out where that water came from. Neither can NxStage.

I hate it when weird stuff happens!!!

[PrimeTimer]

I'm wondering if water somehow ran into the tub only after you hooked up the blue water line and turned on your water source in preparation to make a new batch and if that has something to do with it ?? On another thread you mentioned that you have your Pureflow machine up on a dolly (I assume the 4-wheeled one they provide, kind of like a large piano dolly). Wonder if perhaps it is slightly unlevel and somehow causing a leak. Or...maybe there is a leak at the Orange Conductivity Sensor connection and water ran/dripped down into the tub. We had a small leak there and Nxstage said sometimes the threads on the connector get worn out so they had me screw on one of those Orange adapters that come with the PAKs and ever since, no more leaking. I change the adapter out every other time I prime a new PAK and I make double sure I screw it on straight (one time put it on a little cockeyed and it leaked). Do hope Nxstage can "diagnose" your troubles with this, we all have enough to do and worry about! 

[Vt Big Rig]

Just as Prime Time said, last night we got water in there again. This time it alarmed with about 7 minutes left to go in treatment and sent the cycler right to "000"

As we were breaking down and checking everything out it showed that the conductivity line where it attaches to the Pure Flow was not tight. Not sure if I did not tighten it or if I did not put it on straight. We replaced it with a new line. I replace it with every PAK change since they always have two taped to the box.

Hopefully that is the problem. The Pure Flow made a godawful grinding noise when this happened. Nxstage told my wife that is "normal" but we never heard it before.

[PrimeTimer]

Just as Prime Time said, last night we got water in there again. This time it alarmed with about 7 minutes left to go in treatment and sent the cycler right to "000"

As we were breaking down and checking everything out it showed that the conductivity line where it attaches to the Pure Flow was not tight. Not sure if I did not tighten it or if I did not put it on straight. We replaced it with a new line. I replace it with every PAK change since they always have two taped to the box.

Hopefully that is the problem. The Pure Flow made a godawful grinding noise when this happened. Nxstage told my wife that is "normal" but we never heard it before.

That orange conductivity sensor connector needs to be on there tight AND straight (I learned the hard way). As for the grinding noise, guess that's normal because we just did a swap out of the control unit on our pureflow and now we sometimes hear that grinding noise at the start of making a batch. At least it only grinds for a few seconds and goes away because there's no way I could stand that for much longer. Gives me flashbacks to when I use to drive a clutch drive vehicle and would uh, accidentally grind the gears upon shifting.