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4.4 Installing interface cards
Note:
Always install the rear card in an interface card set before the front card.
To install an interface card:
1. Carefully place the card in the appropriate slot. Make sure the card is aligned with the
top and bottom precision guides.
2. Push the card toward the backplane connectors.
3. When the card has almost reached the backplane connectors, open the two ejector
tabs, allowing them to clear the edges of the matrix. Gently insert the card further
until it touches the backplane connector guides.
4. Gently close both ejector tabs at the same time, To propel the card into the
backplane connectors.
To remove an interface card from the matrix:
1. Hold the card in place in the matrix.
2. The two card ejector tabs are located at the top and bottom of the card. To remove a
card, open the two ejector tabs at the same time until the card unseats from its
backplane connectors.
3. Pull the card out of the matrix.
4.4.1 Combining interface cards in the matrix
The Eclipse can allocate up to 496 audio ports in total. However, the number of ports that
you actually use will depend on the combination of interface cards you fit to the matrix.
An MVX-A16 card uses 16 audio ports.
An E-MADI64 card is configured in EHX to use either 16, 32, 56 or 64 audio ports.
An IVC-32 card uses 32 audio ports from the total.
You could fit a maximum contain a maximum of 15
MVX-A16 cards which would fill the matrix, but would only use 240 ports from the possible
496 ports available:
15 MVX-A16 cards * 16 ports = 240
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