Coral FlexiCom 6000 Installation Manual
Cabinet Descriptions
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Cabinet Components
Card Cages/Shelves
The Coral FlexiCom 6000 slot cabinet contains three or four card cages can, also
referred to as shelves. These cabinets are designed to provide a simple, reliable method
for installing and removing the printed circuit cards and assemblies, which contain the
active circuitry of the system.
Cabinet Doors
Locking doors on the front and back of the cabinet provide physical protection to
internal equipment while still allowing access to the interior. There are door latches on
the front and rear cabinet doors. The latch is moved from the locked to the unlocked
position by inserting a screwdriver blade into the cylinder slot and turning the
appropriate direction until the latch is opened or closed.
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Door Latch Operation
Detail
Card Slots
Each card cage consists primarily of a metallic frame assembly and a printed circuit
board, referred to as a motherboard or backplane. Guides at the top and bottom of the
card cage align the cards and assemblies, during their insertion, with multi-pin
connectors mounted on the backplane. The guides and associated connectors comprise
a card slot.
The connectors provide metallic paths from the cards to the various power and signal
busses of the system and in the peripheral shelves, to the Input/Output (I/O)
connectors.
Control Shelf
The Control Shelf is always located on the bottom shelf of the Main Cabinet and
houses all the control cards as well as the system Power Supply Units (PS-ATS) and
their fuses. A fan tray with three fans, is located at the bottom of the shelf. Fuses for
each fan are easily accessible from the front panel of the shelf.
The Control Shelf may house either one or two specific sets of Control Cards, side by
side. One set of Control Cards, always on the right side, indicates a stand-alone system
as illustrated in
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