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Pickering Interfaces strives to fulfil all relevant environmental laws and regulations and reduce wastes and releases to the environment. Pickering Interfaces aims to design and operate products in a way that protects the environment and the health and safety of its employees, customers and the public. Pickering Interfaces endeavours to develop and manufacture products that can be produced, distributed, used and recycled, or disposed of, in a safe and environmentally friendly manner.
Product Safety Safety Symbols The following safety symbols may be used on the product and throughout the product documentation. Meaning/Description Symbol PROTECTIVE EARTH (GROUND) To identify any terminal which is intended for connection to an external conductor for protection against electric shock in case of a fault, or the terminal of a protective earth (ground) electrode.
43-921 Layout Connectors & Indicators ........................2.2 Section 3 Installation ..................................3.1 Pre Operation Checks ..............................3.1 Installation of 53-921 in Host PC ..........................3.1 Installation of 43-921 in PXIe Chassis ........................3.3 Cabling Host Computer to a PXIe Chassis......................3.5 Power ON/OFF Sequence ............................3.5 Section 4 Trouble Shooting ................................4.1 Section 5 Maintenance Information ..............................5.1...
Unused slots in the PXI/PXIe/LXI chassis are populated with blanking plates to prevent access to user I/O signals that may be present. Blanking panels are available to order from Pickering in a variety of slot widths. If the product is not used in this manner for example by using an extender card then additional care must be taken to avoid contact with exposed signals.
53-921-001 installed in a host PC and the extension kit provides up to 4 GB/s using PCIe Gen 2 x8 lower port is connected to a 43-921-002 in the system slot of signalling. The 43-921 PCI Express-to-PXI Express expansion a second chassis.
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PCIe-to-PXIe Kit with 2 m Cable specification Rev.2.0 compliant with Daisy-chain Facility 43-921-001-KIT Maximum Data Throughput: 43-921-001: Two PCIe gen 2 x8 (includes one 53-921-001, one 43-921-001 and one ports each up to 4 GB/s 43-921-200 2 meter cable) 43-921-002: PCI Express gen 2...
These products require installation in a suitable PXIe chassis/host PC. They are designed for indoor use only. Pre-operation Checks (Unpacking) 1. Check the module for transport damage and report any damage immediately to Pickering Interfaces. Do not attempt to install the product if any damage is evident.
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Section 3 - Installation 53-921 PCI Express Host Card Industrial PC or Desktop PC with x8 PCI Express Slot 8x PCI Express Slot Figure 3.1 - Installing the 53-921 PCIe Remote Control Interface Card in a Host PC pickeringtest.com Page 3.2...
The module should be installed in accordance with the following procedure: 1. Ensure that the chassis is turned OFF but still connected to mains so that it remains grounded. 2. Choose an appropriate slot in the chassis (use the system controller slot when installing a 43-921-001 or 43-921-002 module).
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Handle Rail Figure 3.2 - Installing the 43-921 PXIe Remote Control Interface Module into a PXIe Chassis Note: The 40-921-001 and 40-921-002 modules must be installed in the PXIe System Controller Slot of the chassis - peripheral slots cannot be used pickeringtest.com...
1. Connect the cable assembly to the PCIe connector on the bracket of the 53-921-001 located in the host PC. 2. Connect the other end of the cable assembly to the connector of the 43-921-00x installed into the system slot of the PXIe chassis.
Answer: The 43-921-00x-KIT acts as a generic PXI Express system controller that supports both 4-link and 2-link PXI Express system slots. It detects the backplane and configures automatically without any settings required. Question: Are there any compatibility concerns with the 43-921-00x-KIT? How can a host PC be selected that will be most compatible with the 43-921-00x-KIT? Answer: Limited PCI bus availability is the major concern about compatibility.
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Section 4 - Troubleshooting Question: One or more modules in PXI Express chassis connected via 43-921-00x-KIT are missing from Windows Device Manager. How to best solve this or other compatibility problems (like no boot)? Answer: Due to flexibility and variety of systems with PCI Express expansion, most compatibility issues are related with abnormal device detection or resource assignment done by system BIOS.
For PXI modules which are supported in one of Pickering Interfaces’ Modular LXI Chassis (such as the 60-102B and 60-103B) no module software update is required. If the module was introduced after the LXI chassis was manufactured the module may not be recognized, in this case the chassis firmware may need upgrading.
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