Optical power monitoring – Grass Valley 3430AP CopperHead User Manual
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AC ON/OVERLOAD
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Green when system normal operations or when the HDX-Plus has AC Power
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Red when the HDX-Plus power supply is overloaded
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Off when switch is off, no AC power or fuse is blown
CABLE FAULT
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Red if a high voltage short or open condition is detected
CAMERA PSU
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Green if the Camera Unit power supply is detected
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Red if the 3430 Camera Unit power supply is shut down due to an overload.
Optical Power Monitoring
The HDX-Plus power supply provides Optical Power monitoring for both the Camera unit and
the Base unit. The metering uses Multi-Colored LEDs with indicators covering a range of -21dBm
to 0 dBm. The CopperHead 3430AP Transceiver system is specified to operate at Optical Power
levels above -22dBm.
The unit has two rows of LEDs:
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Top row indicates the optical power level at
the camera unit
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Bottom row indicate optical power level at
the base station
All of the indicator LEDs are multi-color:
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Green - good power
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Yellow Orange - Marginal power
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Red - Insufficient power.
Note: The CopperHead 3430AP system is, of course, a digital system and therefore the link will
operate properly at the lowest acceptable signal strength. If the signal strength dips
below the minimum acceptable level the link will not operate.