TM
Zeus Series: microZEUS with Flying Bus Boards
Tiptop Audio has the following recommendations for connecting your
modules and using your uZEUS:
The uZEUS is designed to power systems ranging from 3U to 6U of 84HP of
mixed analog and digital modules. As you keep adding modules to your system
beyond 3U x 84HP
we recommend a simple test that will help you protect your
uZeus and adapter from mistakenly getting overloaded and eventually failing.
To do so check the heat of your uZeus face plate and the power adapter roughly
10 minutes after power up. If they become almost too hot to the touch then you
are overloading one of them and this will cause them to fail. Please remove a few
modules and test again, repeating until they are reasonably but not burning hot.
Please note: the uZeus was designed to be mounted on metal rails with good
heat transfer such as Tiptop Z-Rails. Do not install the uZeus directly to wood or
any other flammable material, this will cause the uZeus to overheat.
To insure long life for the power supply, you should be aware of the total power
consumption of your system. This is determined by adding together the amount
of current used by each of your modules. Please refer to the power consumption
figures provided by your modules’ manufacturer(s). Please note, digital modules
are usually by far more demanding than analog modules.
To avoid crosstalk, it is recommended that High current-drawing modules like
digital and DSP modules, VCOs and sound/noise generators should not all be
plugged into a single bus board. For modules that are placed next to the uZEUS
and have more than one circuit board and may block the flying bus boards, take
advantage of the ribbon cables flexibility and route it around the module. The
bus boards were designed with this consideration in mind.
Wall Adapter Information:
The Tiptop wall adapter supplied with the Happy Ending kit is rated 1000mA and
must be kept at that limit, it is a starter power supply and is not meant for
powering large systems beyond a Happy Ending Kit. Higher power adapters can
be used as long as you carefully keep checking how hot the uZeus
face plate gets as recommended above. The uZeus uses
15VDC adapters with 2.5mm barrel jack center pin positive.
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