Clear-Com HX System Frames - Manual

Quick Start Guide
This quick start guide describes how to set up a basic Eclipse HX™ digital matrix system. It
explains how to:
• Connect Eclipse HX interface cards, user panels and other devices to the matrices.
• Check that your connected hardware devices are functioning correctly (without having to
configure the matrices).
• Set up the EHX configuration software on the PC.
• Set up and configure the matrix.
Tip: For detailed help with setting up and configuring your Eclipse HX system, see the full Eclipse
HX documentation set on the Eclipse HX DVD(s).
1.1 Connecting your Eclipse HX devices
To connect your Eclipse HX devices to the matrix:
1. Ensure that the Eclipse HX matrix is unpowered.
2. Check that all the required interface cards (MVX-A16, E-QUE, E-MADI64, IVC-32, LMC-64
and E-FIB front and rear cards) and interface modules (in the case of the Eclipse HX-
Median and Eclipse HX-Delta) have been inserted into the matrix.
3. Connect the rear cards to the user panels, then the interfaces, leaving unused ports until
last.
4. Connect the matrix to your network (see next section).
5. Power up the Eclipse HX matrix.
1.2 Connecting the EHX PC
The Eclipse HX matrix is set up to automatically obtain an IP address from a DHCP server on your
network. If no DHCP server can be located, the matrix defaults to the IP address of
169.254.0.100
. This enables the PC that will host your EHX configuration software to
automatically acquire an IP address to communicate with the matrix through a directly connected
Ethernet cable.
Note:
if you are using an older PC you may require an Ethernet crossover cable. If the Ethernet port
status and activity LEDs are not lit when the PC and matrix are powered and the cable is
connected, the cable is probably of the incorrect type.
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