page 29 of 36Documents are only to be used and distributed completely and unchanged. It is strictly the users´ responsibility to check carefullythe validity of this document with respect to his product. Manual-no.: 999162 // 19/01/2011The vacuum gauge itself is maintenance free.Contamination of the pressure transducer or deposits will influence the accuracy of measurement and/or the adjustment.Attention: Never use a spiky or sharp-edged tool to clean the pressure transducer.VSK 3000: Never touch the ceramic diaphragm at the back of the measuring cham-ber with hard objects!VSP 3000: The interior of the pressure transducer is highly sensitive! Do not insertfingers or tools into the measuring chamber.Clean a contaminated pressure transducer as follows:➨ Fill the measurement chamber with a solvent (e. g. benzene) and allow sufficient cleaning time. Ob-serve all regulations concerning usage and disposal of solvents!➨ Drain the solvent and dispose of in accordance with regulations, repeat cleaning if necessary.➨ Rinse the gauge head chamber several times with alcohol in order to remove all solvent residues.➨ Allow the pressure transducer to dry.➨ Readjust the pressure transducer if necessary.Cleaning the pressure transducersCalibration in the factoryDKD calibrationvacuum gauge DCP 3000 with external pressure transducer VSP 3000 / VSK 3000 ...................900215NOTICEControl of measuring equipmentThe VACUUBRAND DKD calibration laboratory is accredited by the Physikalisch-Technische Bunde-sanstalt (PTB; German national institute for science and technology and the highest technical authorityof the Federal Republic of Germany for the field of meteorology and certain sectors of safety engineer-ing) for the measurable variable pressure in the pressure range from 10-3 mbar to 1000 mbar inaccordance with the general criteria for the operation of testing laboratories defined in the standard ENISO/IEC 17025:2000.Calibration in the VACUUBRAND calibration laboratory:- To meet the requirements of the DIN ISO 9000ff and 10012 series of standards regarding the calibra-tion of inspection, measuring and test equipment at specified intervals.- To document that the vacuum gauges calibrated are traceable to national standards of the PTB.