11/73 into 11/03 chassis? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Feb 2016

I have an  11/73  card in one of  my video editing  systems...
does this mean I can give my H-11 more balls?
In a message dated 2/9/2016 11:36:30 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
jacob.ritorto at gmail.com writes:
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