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SCXI Quick Start Guide
Complete the following steps to check or replace fuses.
1.
Power off the chassis and remove the power cord.
2.
Remove the four screws that secure the fan and filter to the rear of the
chassis. When removing the last screw, be careful to hold the fan to
avoid breaking the fan wires.
3.
The fuse marked with a on the backplane is for the positive
analog supply, and the fuse marked with a copper – is for the negative
analog supply. To check whether a fuse is blown, connect an ohmmeter
across the leads. If the reading is not 0
Ω
, replace the fuse.
4.
Using needle-nose pliers, carefully extract the fuse.
5.
Take a new fuse and bend its leads so the component is 12.7 mm
(0.5 in.) long—the dimension between the fuse sockets—and clip the
leads to a length of 6.4 mm (0.25 in.).
6.
Using needle-nose pliers, insert the fuse into the socket holes.
7.
Repeat, if necessary, for the other fuse.
8.
Align the fan and filter with the fan holes, making sure that the label
side of the fan is face down. Reinstall the four screws and make sure
the assembly is secure.
My chassis worked fine until I inadvertently removed and reinserted a
module while the chassis was on. Now my chassis does not power on.
What can I do?
SCXI modules are not hot swappable, so you may have blown a fuse. If
replacing the fuse does not correct the problem, you may have damaged the
digital bus circuitry or the SCXI module. Please contact NI Technical
Support at
ni.com/support
for assistance.
MAX will not recognize my chassis when I perform a test? What can I
do?
Check the following items:
•
Verify the chassis is powered on.
•
Verify the chassis is correctly cabled to a DAQ device. If more than one
DAQ device is installed in your PC, verify the device selected for
Chassis Communicator
is actually connected to the chassis.
•
Check to see if any backplane pins were bent during installation of
modules.
•
Verify correct placement and configuration of the modules. If you did
not auto-detect modules, modules installed in the chassis may not be
configured in software. Alternately, modules configured in software
might not match the ones installed in the chassis.