Vanguard Managed Solutions 6500 PLUS Trim Card Rear Filler Panel for Modulus 9/21 Enclosures

Installing Nodes in Modulus Enclosures

Modulus 9/21 Nests The TRIM card has its own backplane and attaches to the solder side of the 6500PLUS processor card. The TRIM card requires two Modulus slots. The TRIM filler panel for Modulus 9/21 nests is one slot wide as shown in Figure 2-10.

Modulus 9 Rear View

65xx

18-Port

Backplane

TRIM Card

Filler Panel for

Modulus 9/21

Shielded

Twisted Pair

Unshielded

Twisted Pair

TRIM Card

Filler Panel for

Modulus 8/18

Guidelines for Installing a TRIM Card in a Modulus 9/21 Enclosure

Use flat-head screwdriver to attach captive

hardware.

Figure 2-10. TRIM Card Rear Filler Panel for Modulus 9/21 Enclosures

Consider the following if you install a TRIM card in a Modulus 9/21 enclosure:

Note

Before you add a TRIM card to an existing node, be sure the enclosure has room for it as described above. To make space, you may need to rearrange cards and backplanes, which requires a node shutdown first.

•A processor card with attached TRIM card requires four slots — two slots each for the TRIM card and the processor card.

•The TRIM card attaches only to the processor card in the lowest-numbered slot of a backplane (this is the master processor in a multi-processor node).

•When installing in a Modulus 21, install a horizontal bar on the front door to meet FCC requirements.

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