QSC Audio RAVE 80 - Manual (Page 23)

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WHAT HAPPENS IF I RUN OUT OF CHANNELS?
Network channels automatically drop when available network bandwidth is exhausted. The network channels
with the highest address numbers will be the first to be dropped. The “TX Error” indicator will light when a
transmitting unit cannot send due to insufficient bandwidth.
If this occurs when the network is carrying additional traffic, such as an office LAN, the unregulated LAN traffic
is the likely culprit. Manage and plan any shared network media to avoid such conflicts, and use separate network
media whenever possible; if it is absolutely necessary to share media or maintain communication with other parts
of a network, use a router to isolate the RAVE portion of the network from the other network devices.
CAN I RECEIVE AUDIO CHANNELS ON THE SAME UNIT THAT I TRANSMIT THEM ON?
(RAVE 88 AND RAVE 188 ONLY)
Audio will loop back within a RAVE unit; that is, if you set the receive channel group to the same network channelas
that of the transmitting group on the same unit, the receiving channels will pass the audio signals from the
transmitting channels on the same unit. However, the RAVE unit must be connected to an actual network, just
as if you were receiving audio from or sending audio to other RAVE units. Of course, there wouldn’t be any point
in passing audio from one side of a stand-alone RAVE unit to the other side, anyway.
Unlike when you receive a block of audio channels from another RAVE device on the network, when you set the
receiving block of a RAVE 88 or 188 to the same channel as the transmit block, the audio signal level LEDs for
the receive block will not glow dim green.