3Install the expansion module(s).

a.Open the 9U expansion module’s access door and raise the guide pin by pulling it up and turning it slightly as if it were a screw. Otherwise, the guide pin may scratch the front doors of the module on which you are stacking.

Guide pin

Thumbscrew

b.Lift the new expansion module and, from the front of the library, place it in the desired location.

c.If stacking the expansion module on top of another module, lower the module’s guide pin (located at the base of the front of the module) by turning it and pushing it down. Then secure the two modules together by tightening the two thumbscrews at the base of the front of the module and the two thumbscrews located at the base of the back of the module.

d.Tighten all thumbscrews located at the base of the front and back of the modules.

e.Fasten the module to the rack with rack ears. For instructions, see “Installing the Rackmount Kit” in the Scalar i500 User’s Guide.

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i500 specifications

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