Grass Valley CopperHead Pro - Manual (Page 17)

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CopperHead Pro
User Guide
Base Station Overview
The CopperHead Pro Base Station is a one rack-unit high device that provides all of the
inputs for signals going to the CopperHead Pro Camera Unit, as well as the outputs for the
signals coming from Camera Unit. Base Station is available in a variety of configurations.
The options are:
Power Supply Single or Double Fiber Connector
12 Volt DC Input: “Dry Fiber”
• No Internal camera power supply
• Does not supply power to Camera
Unit via SMPTE hybrid fiber cable
• Is typically used with Tactical fiber
cable and/or infrastructure cabling
• Available in “Dual” configuration for
interface and control of two Camera
Units in a single one RU device
120/220 Volt AC Input – “Powered
Fiber”
• Includes internal power supply for
Camera Unit
• Supplies power to Camera Unit via
SMPTE hybrid fiber cable
• Not available in “Dual”
configuration. Can only interface
and control a single Camera Unit
Single Configuration
• Interface and control a
single Camera Unit
• Available in 12 Volt DC and
120/220 VAC models
Dual Configuration
• Interface and control two
Camera Units in a one RU
device
• Available in 12 Volt DC only.
• Not available for 120/220
VAC models
Six different fiber connectors are
available for the
CopperHead Pro
Base Station (see Rear Panel
Section B - Optical Connector on
page 25 for details).
• OpticalCON
(dry)
• Two STs
• MX (Expanded
Beam)
• OpticalCON
(powered)
• SMPTE 304M
• Two STs and
Molex