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Stinger® MS+ Getting Started Guide
Preparing for the Installation
Unpacking the Stinger
Remove plastics from your work area
Work areas must be kept clear of common plastics, such as the following items:
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Polystyrene packing containers
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Clear plastic bags
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Plastic drinking cups
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Food wrappers
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Clear cellophane tape
These types of common plastic materials can carry a static charge that is not easily
discharged to ground and must not make direct contact with modules or any other
solid state components.
Store components properly
Protect modules immediately after removal from a chassis by placing them in their
original factory packing materials. Storage in approved antistatic packaging is
acceptable when factory packaging is unavailable.
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Caution
Never place unprotected modules directly on ungrounded metal shelving
or on ungrounded carts without insulating surfaces.
Unpacking the Stinger
The Stinger unit is delivered in a protective shipping carton, in an electro-static
protection bag, with all the ordered modules installed. Before you remove the Stinger
unit from the shipping carton, check for damage. If you see any damage, follow the
instructions described in your product warranty.
To avoid potential damage to the unit, Lucent Technologies recommends moving the
unit to the installation site
before
unpacking it from the shipping carton.
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Warning
A Stinger MS+ with all components and modules installed weighs up to 66
pounds (30kg). To avoid potential injury, at least two people or a mechanical lift
should be used for moving or rack-mounting a fully populated unit.
Verifying the hardware configuration
The Stinger MS+ has a midplane design that enables the control module and line
interface modules in the front of a unit to connect to the line protection modules
(LPMs) and trunk module in the back.
All units are equipped with a cooling module, power filters, and an alarm module.
Other modules ordered with the unit are installed prior to shipment. Check the unit
to verify that it is configured as ordered and to identify the connection points for
power and data. The cable connectors for standard LPMs and the trunk module are
located in the back of the chassis. Connections for the power filters, alarm
monitoring, and BITS timing are located in the front of the chassis.
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Caution
Wear an antistatic wrist strap before handling any of the unit components.
This can be connected to one of two electrostatic discharge (ESD) grounding jacks
(banana jacks),
located at the bottom left corner of the front of the unit (Figure 1-5)
and in a similar location the rear of the unit (Figure 1-7).
