9 Feb
2016
9 Feb
'16
10:36 a.m.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I'm not absolutely sure exactly what you have that's holding the '11/03
backplane'; if it's a standard BA11-M enclosure, the answer, sadly, is
'no'.
[...]
If your '11/03 backplane' is a different kind of backplane, in some other
kind
of box (e.g. BA11-N or BA11-S), the answer, sadly, is still 'no', because
they
both also use terminal blocks for power. (Although if you have a BA11-S,
you'd
already be set, those are Q22 native.)
OK, now that I know what I'm looking for, my target options here are:
Chassis:
BA11-N and "OBA11-R" (an expansion box)
Backplanes currently in these chassis are:
H9273 and H9273-A
Power supplies are all H786.
Really, it's not that hard to upgrade an H9270-A
(or the H9273-A in a
BA11-N)
to Q22 (I have done several of the latter); the transplant you speak of
(were
it possible) is on the same order of magnitude of work.
Noel
So, since grafting in the Micro backplane would involve butcher work, I'm
now wholeheartedly convinced that I should be moving to your setup with the
BA11-N/S boxes, Noel. And I'm sold on the Q-22 backplane conversion
(despite failing the first time I tried it years ago). Going to study what
prints I have, review previous advice and go for it.
Thank you for all the tips and hand-holding!
--jake