Rack Mount Shelf And Blade Setup; Rack Mount Shelf Overview; Vbrick 9000 Blades - VBrick 9000 Getting Started Manual

Rack Mount Shelf and Blade Setup

Rack Mount Shelf Overview

The VBrick 9000 Encoder Rack Mount Shelf is a customized enclosure for VBrick blades. It
lets you mix and match 7000 encoder blades and 9000 encoder blades on the same shelf. It
provides a common redundant power source/common cooling and supports 11 VBrick 9000
encoder blade encoders in a standard 19 inch rack.
It has hot-swappable, redundant AC input power supplies and LED and audible failure
alarms. It also has a common, hot swappable cooling unit and a replaceable air filter. The
chassis for a rack mount shelf has a removable cable management panel (not shown) and card
rails that make it easy to insert or remove individual blade encoders.
Figure 1. VBrick 9000 Encoder Rack Mount Shelf

VBrick 9000 Blades

In general, the VBrick 9000 Blades are fully-functional encoders and decoders housed within
a rack mount shelf rather than as standalone encoders. Each blade is configured
independently of the others and has its own network connection and IP address.
The blades can have Standard Definition connectors or Standard and High Definition
connectors (depicted in the image below). In most respects, the blade models operate in the
same manner as the 1RU Industrial models without a front panel but there are some
important exceptions:
• The blade has a scrolling 8x1 character mini LCD on the face plate.
• The blade displays their shelf slot position (1–11) in the VBAdmin management
program.
• The blade in Slot 1 will read and display shelf manufacturing data from an EEprom on
the backplane.
Encoder Getting Started
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