User guide

Training Manual
Hardware Familiarization Lab
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3. Remove the expansion chassis (if present):
• Use the metal option card retainer to free the expansion board from its socket.
Grab the retainer and pull forward to free the expansion chassis from its backplane
edge connector.
• Carefully slide the expansion board forward to access the ribbon cable
Figure 2 .2.
MC5000 –
Expansion board
• Disconnect the ribbon cable from J11 on the expansion board
• Continue to slide the expansion board from the instrument.
The expansion board has 5 sockets for adding option cards. These option cards are held in
place with a metal retainer (clamp) as shown in the next figure: