What is Philips CT error code PTL?

Primary Temperature Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet. It is reported by the Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet (MRI gradient/primary water cooling) on Eclipse 1.5T and Polaris and Apollo CT systems. Severity: Alarm — operational cooling fault; subsystem: Water Cooling System (Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet).

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PTL — Primary Temperature Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet

Philips CT error code, reported by the Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet (MRI gradient/primary water cooling).

What PTL means

On Eclipse 1.5T and Polaris and Apollo CT systems, status code PTL indicates: Primary Temperature Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet. The code originates in the Water Cooling System (Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet) section of the Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet (MRI gradient/primary water cooling). Severity level alarm (Alarm — operational cooling fault).

Reported action: Primary Temperature Low means the primary circuit water temperature reading is below the alarm threshold. Check the primary water supply temperature against specification and read current values from the controller menu (screen 4.2.5) before acknowledging. This document does not give further diagnostic or repair steps specific to this alarm..

Shown as an alarm-status abbreviation on the Picker 3020 controller of the Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet, documented for the Philips/Picker Eclipse 1.5T MRI (and shared, per the same table, by Polaris and Apollo systems). Not confirmed by this document for other cooler models.

Full troubleshooting for PTL

The complete diagnosis, cause tree, and step-by-step remedy for the Water Cooling System (Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet) subsystem are documented in the FSELIB Activion16 (TSX-031A) service manual — re-authored, web-first, with real figures.

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Related Water Cooling System (Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet) codes

E1310Cooling fan RPM is out of the acceptable operating range E1313System is no longer fan-redundant PFLPrimary Flow Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet GFLGradient Flow Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet PTHPrimary Temperature High alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet GTLGradient Temperature Low alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet GTHGradient Temperature High alarm on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet RVLReservoir Very Low alarm — secondary circuit header tank critically low on the Oxford 2195 cooler cabinet

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Source: Philips/Picker Eclipse 1.5T MRI service documentation — Theory and Troubleshooting of Oxford 2195 Cooler Cabinet (Diagnostic Tools and Information, Maintenance). Reference information re-authored by FSELIB — not a copy of the OEM manual.