How it works in the path
Eleven rack unitsThe standard slice of rack height: 1U = 1.75″. A 3U box takes three slices; half-rack gear pairs two units side by side in one. and 31.5 kg means this is not a fly-date decision — it's a commitment to a specific case and a specific truck position. The 472 mm depth demands a proper touring rack, not a shallow ATA shell. Power draw sits at 200 W nominal with a 280 W max, and critically, there are two IECThe standard three-prong appliance power inlet on rack gear — the kettle lead. C13/C14 in spec-sheet speak. inlets for redundantA second copy of anything critical — supply, computer, network path — already running so one failure can’t stop the show. power feeds — run each to a separate circuit or UPSUninterruptible Power Supply — a battery that rides the rig through brownouts and generator hiccups so computers never reboot mid-song. leg. The dual gigaACE ports (A and B on both the surface link and the stage expansion) mean you carry a redundant Cat6Standard network cable grades. In an audio rig one cheap Cat5e run can replace a 48-channel copper snake; AES50 wants it shielded. run as standard practice, not an afterthought. Two M-Series option slots let you add DanteThe most common audio-over-network standard: dozens of channels of uncompressed digital audio down one ordinary Ethernet cable between Dante boxes., MADIA pro digital format carrying 64 channels on one coax or optical cable. Point-to-point — one sender, one receiver, no network required., or other I/O cards to bridge into a house system or a broadcast split without touching your analog patch.
