Extron electronic 3200, 7200 manual Fiber optic boards, Connections

Fiber optic boards

1a	1a	1a	1a	1a	1a	1a	1a
OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN	OUT IN

A B C D E F G H

1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b 1b

Figure 6. Fiber Optic Board

AFiber optic board, connectors (see figure 3 on page 8 and figure 4 on page 9) —

WARNING: Risk of serious physical injury — The FOX matrix switchers fiber optic

I/O boards output continuous invisible light, which may be harmful to the eyes; use

with caution.

• Do not look into the fiber optic cable connectors or into the fiber optic cables.

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

NOTES:

•Ensure that you use the proper fiber cable for your I/O board. Typically, singlemode

fiber has a yellow jacket and multimode cable has an orange or aqua jacket.

•Unlike most Extron 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 FOX matrix switchers uses one connector on the block as an input and the second connector on the same block as a separate output.

•All transceiver modules on a fiber optic I/O board, as delivered from Extron, are configured the same: either all multimode or all singlemode.

•You can mix multimode and singlemode fiber optic I/O boards in a FOX matrix switcher, but you must ensure that you connect the proper transmission mode fiber cables to the board.

Extron	Tx	Rx
Fiber Optic	LINK	LINK
Transmitter

Rx is optional connection

ÄInput connector and LED — For all one-way video, audio, and serial communications output by a transmitter, connect a fiber optic cable to the Input LC connector (see figure 7).

Connect the free end of this fiber optic cable to the Optical Tx LC connector on a FOXBOX Tx transmitter or to any other compatible fiber optic device.

NOTES:

•For a FOX 500 transmitter, connect this fiber optic cable to the Optical 1 LC connector.

•Alternatively, for the serial return, (receiver-to- transmitter) function, connect the far end of the cable to the Optical 2 connector on a receiver.

1b OUT

FOX

Matrix

Switcher

Tx is optional connection

Extron	Tx Rx
	LINK
Fiber Optic
Receiver	OPTICAL

IN 1a

LINK

Input LED — See Fiber optic I/O board LED

indications on the next page.Figure 7. Optical

Connections

FOX Matrix 3200 and 7200 Switchers • Installation 11