User`s manual

DIGITAL-LOGIC AG MPC40/A/B/C, MPC41 Manual V1.4C
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1.11 For Your Safety
Your new Digital-Logic product was developed and tested carefully to provide all features necessary
to ensure its compliance with electrical safety requirements. It was also designed for a long fault-free
life. However, the life expectancy of your product can be drastically reduced by improper treatment
during unpacking and installation. Therefore, in the interest of your own safety and of the correct op-
eration of your new Digital-Logic product, you are requested to conform with the following guide-
lines.
Warning!
All operations on this device must be carried out by sufficiently skilled personnel only.
Caution, Electric Shock!
Before installing your new Digital-Logic product, always ensure that your mains power is
switched off. This applies also to the installation of piggybacks or peripherials. Serious
electrical shock hazards can exist during all installation, repair and maintenance operations
with this product. Therefore, always unplug the power cable and any other cables which
provide external voltages before performing work.
ESD Sensitive Device!
Electronic boards and their components are sensitive to static electricity. Therefore, care must
be taken during all handling operations and inspections of this product, in order to ensure
product integrity at all times.
1.12 RoHS Commitment
DIGITAL-LOGIC AG is committed to develop and produce environmentally friendly products according to the
Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) Directive (2002/95/EC) and the Waste Electrical and Electronic
Equipment (WEEE) Directive (2002/96/EC) established by the European Union. The RoHS directive was
adopted in February 2003 by the European Union and came into effect on July 1, 2006. It is not a law but a
directive, which restricts the use of six hazardous materials in the manufacturing of various types of elec-
tronic and electrical equipment. It is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Direc-
tive (WEEE) 2002/96/EC, which has set targets for collection, recycling and recovery of electrical goods and
is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of huge amounts of toxic e-waste.
Each European Union member state is adopting its own enforcement and implementation policies using the
directive as a guide. Therefore, there could be as many different versions of the law as there are states in the
EU. Additionally, non-EU countries like China, Japan, or states in the U.S. such as California may have their
own regulations for green products, which are similar, but not identical, to the RoHS directive.
RoHS is often referred to as the "lead-free" directive but it restricts the use of the following substances:
 Lead
 Mercury
 Cadmium
 Chromium VI
 PBB and PBDE
The maximum allowable concentration of any of the above mentioned substances is 0.1% (except for Cad-
mium, which is limited to 0.01%) by weight of homogeneous material. This means that the limits do not apply
to the weight of the finished product, or even to a component but to any single substance that could (theo-
retically) be separated mechanically.