Base station overview – Grass Valley CopperHead PowerWafer User Manual
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System Overview
Base Station Overview
Base Station Overview
The CopperHead Base Station is a one rack-unit high device that provides all of the inputs
for signals going to the CopperHead Camera Unit, as well as the outputs for the signals
coming from Camera Unit. Base Station is available in a variety of configurations. The
options are:
Power Supply
Single or Double
Fiber Connector
12 Volt DC Input: “Dry Fiber”
No Internal camera power supply
Does not supply power to Camera
Unit via SMPTE hybrid fiber cable
Is typically used with Tactical fiber
cable and/or infrastructure cabling
Available in “Dual” configuration for
interface and control of two Camera
Units in a single one RU device.
120/220 Volt AC Input – “Powered
Fiber”
Includes internal power supply for
Camera Unit.
Supplies power to Camera Unit via
SMPTE hybrid fiber cable
Not available in “Dual” configuration.
Can only interface and control a
single Camera Unit.
Single Configuration
Interface and control a single
Camera Unit.
Available in 12 Volt DC and
120/220 VAC models
Dual Configuration
Interface and control two
Camera Units in a one RU
device.
Available in 12 Volt DC only.
Not available for 120/220 VAC
models
Six different fiber connectors are
available for the CopperHead Base
Station. See
on page 20 for
details
OpticalCON (dry)
Two STs
MX (Expanded
Beam)
OpticalCON
(powered)
SMPTE 304M
Two STs and
Molex