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Hardware Installation ESD Precautions
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Hardware Installation
ESD Precautions
All Spectrum boards contain electronic components that can be damaged by electrostatic discharge (ESD).
Before installing the board in your system or protective conductive packaging, discharge yourself by touching
a grounded bare metal surface or approved anti-static mat before picking up this ESD sensitive product.
Sources of noise
Noise sensitive analog devices, such as analog acquisition and generator boards should be placed physically as far away from any noise
producing source (like e.g. the power supply) as possible. It should especially be avoided to place the board in the slot directly adjacent to
another fast board like e.g. a graphics controller.
Cooling Precautions
The boards of the M2p.xxxx-x4 series operate with components having very high power consumption at high speeds. For this reason it is
absolutely required to cool the boards sufficiently.
For all M2p cards it is absolutely mandatory to have installed cooling fans specifically providing a stream of
air across the board’s surface.
• Make absolutely sure, that the on-board heat sink on the M2p card is not blocked by PC internal cabling or any other means.
• Ensure that there is plenty of space around the PC chassis fan’s intake and exhaust vents, both inside and outside the chassis.
• If your chassis includes fan filters, make sure that these are regularly cleaned.
• Set the rotation speed for all chassis fans and especially those providing air for the PCIe cards to highest setting in the BIOS/UEFI.
• Whenever possible leave the slot adjacent to the M2p card empty. This allows for best possible air flow over the card’s surface.
• If you do need to to use any adjacent slots, preferably install cards, that grant the most clearance between the devices, such as low-profile
adapters.
• If available install filler panels with ventilation holes for all unused PCI or PCI Express slots to allow for additional air flow for the M2p
cards and serve as an additional outtake.
For all M2p cards requiring an additional slot for its heat-sink, the supplied ventilation PCIe bracket must be
installed for the slot used by the heat-sink, to allow for proper air move over the heat-sink and out of the PC
chassis..
Connector Handling Precautions
The connectors used on this product are designed for high signal quality and good shielding. Due to the limited space on the front-panel they
have to be as small as possible to fit the needed signal connections on the front panel. Therefore these connectors are vulunable to mechanical
damages when used not properly. Especially SMB and MMCX connctors may be broken when not operated correctly.
Always dismount the connections by operating the connector itself and not the cable. Always move the cable
connector in a straight line from the board connector. Do not cant the connector when opening the connection.
A broken connector can only be replaced in factory and is not covered by warranty.