Step 5. Installing Modules into Expansion Bays (4100U), Continued

Placement Guidelines (continued)

Motherboards can be installed on top of the PDI in expansion bays. The data and power that would normally be bussed via the PDI is instead routed across the boards via ribbon cable from one board to the next.

Up to eight 2” (51 mm) x 11 ½” (292 mm) motherboards can be installed in an expansion bay if no 4”x 5”modules are installed in the bay, and if the pins on the left connector (usually P1) on the leftmost motherboard are removed. Motherboards are mounted on top of the PDI in expansion bays. The data and power that would normally be bussed via the PDI is instead routed across the boards via ribbon cable from one board to the next.

Motherboards should be added from left to right.

Relay motherboards must be the rightmost motherboards.

In the first bay of an FACP, the CPU motherboard is the right most motherboard, and other motherboards are fitted to its left side.

The CPU motherboard generates the 8V supply required for 4100A motherboards. It also has the 4100A style Molex connectors to which a harness can be fitted as per Fig 2-8.

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This slot cannot contain a

Up to eight 2” (51mm) x 11 ½” (292 mm) motherboards can be

motherboard unless the pins

mounted in an expansion bay. Seven motherboards fit into Slots

on P1 (or leftmost pin

2 through 8; the eighth can be added in Slot 1 if its leftpost pins

connector) are removed.

are removed.

Figure 2-10. Expansion Bay Motherboard Placement

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4100U specifications

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