Installation Instructions

Hardware Installation
RVP8 User’s Manual
September 2005
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2.3 RVP8 Chassis
2.3.1 RVP8 Chassis Overview
The RVP8 main chassis can assume a variety of forms depending on the customer requirements.
Appendix C describes a standard SIGMET system. A typical unit supplied by SIGMET
contains at least the following:
S A dual CPU on either motherboard or SBC in a passive PCI backplane
S RVP8/Rx Card
S I/O-62 Card and Connector Panel
The system is also shipped with an integrated hard disk drive (HDD), 1.44 MB floppy (FDD)
and CDRW unit. Note some installations may use a flash disk drive instead of an HDD. There is
an LED display panel on the front of the chassis that is used to report system status.
2.3.2 Power Requirements, Size and Physical Mounting
WARNING: The Main Chassis redundant power supplies are NOT auto-ranging
like the IFD. These are factory configured for the expected voltage, but should
be VERIFIED by the customer before power is applied to the system.
There a three redundant power supplies
The standard SIGMET chassis is a 19” EIA 4U rackmount unit, 17” (43 cm) deep. The chassis is
usually mounted in a nearby equipment rack on rack slides (provided as standard). The
connector panel is usually mounted on either the front or the rear of the same rack. The standard
cable provided to connect the I/O-62 card in the main chassis to the connector panel is 6 feet
long (1.8 m) .
The power requirements are 100–240 VAC 47–63 Hz. The IFD is autoranging, i.e., there are no
switches or jumpers that must be set. However, the main chassis is not. To check that the power
supply is properly configured for your line voltage, follow the procedure in Section C.1.3.