Maintenance and Modifications

Removing and Installing the I/O Board or Blank Panel

WThe Fiber Matrix 6400 fiber optic I/O boards output continuous invisible light, which may be harmful and dangerous to the eyes; use with caution.

Do not look into the rear panel fiber optic cable connectors or into the fiber optic cables themselves.

Plug the attached dust caps into the optical transceivers when the fiber optic cable is unplugged.

NAs factory configured, the fiber optic I/O boards are configured as either

100 percent singlemode or 100 percent multimode, but you can remove a fiber optic transceiver module (one input and one output) of one transmission mode and replace it with a block of the other transmission mode.

You can mix transmission mode transceiver modules on a fiber optic I/O board, provided that you ensure that each fiber cable and connected devices are the appropriate transmission mode for the transceiver module.

Typically, singlemode fiber has a yellow jacket and multimode cable has an orange jacket.

NUnlike the FOX 500 transmitters and receivers, which output an optical stream on one connector in a block and receive a return optical stream on the second connector in the same block, the fiber optic I/O board uses one connector on the block as an input and the second connector on the same block as a separate output.

NFor proper cooling and air flow, boards and/or blank panels should be installed in all locations during normal switcher operations.

Circuit boards can be replaced for fault correction or to accommodate SDI/HD-SDI (electric) signals. They can be added or removed to increase or decrease the I/O configuration (size) of the Fiber Matrix.

See figure 7-1. Each I/O board is identified by the input and output numbers supported by the board position (1 - 8, 9 - 16, and so on) The transceiver modules on fiber optic I/O boards and the BNC connectors on SDI/HD-SDI boards are identified as A through H.

O#1 I#1 O#2 I#2 O#3 I#3 O#4 I#4

O#5 I#5 O#6 I#6 O#7 I#7 O#8 I#8

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Figure 7-1 — Arrangement of inputs and outputs on the I/O boards

Locations A through H correspond to the input and output numbers identified by the board position numbers. (For example, the input and output numbers supported by the I/O board in location 17 - 24 are as follows: A = 17, B = 18, C = 19, D = 20, E = 21, F = 22, G = 23, and H = 24.)

On the fiber optic I/O boards, locations A through H correspond to the transceiver modules, each of which includes an input and an output. Therefore, locations A through H are numbered from left to right.

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