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Replacement 780. Help

SB2015

SB2015

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Relationship to Diabetes
Type 1
After so many failures with connecting sensors to my 780 pump Medtronic decided to replace the pump, as I had tried sensors from new boxes, checked through all their troubleshooting, ….

Can anyone remember how to turn off the old pump. I have removed the battery but it is still flashing and getting cross. I know we turned them off at training before starting the new one but I have tried pressing and holding the button top right and still no joy.
 
Looking at p. 224 (Pump Storage) in the System User Guide, you may be pressing the wrong button. It suggests the one on the left with the curved arrow until the screen switches off..
 
Thanks @JohnWhi
The pump is now silenced and awaiting collection.
I was indeed pressing the wrong button.
 
Flower said:
If it’s the same design as the 640g remember to remove the belt clip before your pump is collected. I had to order a belt clip after I forgot to take mine off.
Hope you’re soon up & running with a new pump @SB2015
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This time I have been more sensible.
The new pump arrived within 24 hours. I was going away for a couple of days so decided it was foolish to try setting it up whilst away (unlike @everydayupsanddowns who did his whilst at a festival!)

I would have had a busy few days during which I would be in Manual mode whilst the pump and I get to know each other. MyOH reminded me after last time that I decided to give myself four days next time I switched pumps. As a retiree it was easy for me to just cancel/rearrange. This is giving me time to
  • Input all the ratios and settings. I have five basal profiles in manual. Entering these takes a while but easier now that I have found that I can copy the basal setting to a new one and then just tweak adding and subtracting a percentage.
  • Be at home with measured carb counts and not worry about the alarms keep going off -frequently forgotten the final button press for a bolus.
  • If alarms go off in the night I know I can just sleep in the following morning.
I have at least two days in manual and it is a good reminder of why I like using HCL.
 
The big question Sue is, will the new pump be Hermione too (or two) or will she get a new name?
 
A very good question @rebrascora .
It is such a familiar name to me and friends now, so it will just be Hermione 111.
Her predecessor has been referred to by ‘some other names’ over the last few weeks when things kept going wrong, and she was blaming the sensors rather than taking responsibility for her own behaviour. Let’s see how Mark 3 works.
 
I hope they weren't naughty word names!!
Hope Hermione III lives up to her namesake.
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Hermion-three?
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Yup. I had thought of choosing a different name each time but I get asked about how Hermione is by quite a few friends. The name has stuck. So now we are onto Hermione 3.
 
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