Codan 6700 Series User manual

SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS

USER GUIDE

Block Up Converter Systems

6700/6900 series

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Codan part number 15-44027-EN Issue 1, October 2006

Block Up Converter Systems 6700/6900 series User Guide i

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Table of contents

Introduction

1Overview

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

BUC system configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

BUC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Transmit frequency bands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Frequency conversion plans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Power supply options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

LNB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Redundancy systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

The redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

How the redundancy controller works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

RF waveguide switches. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Remote Controller 6570 and Hand-held Controller 6560 . . . . . . . . . . 26

2 Installation

Unpacking the equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Installing the BUC equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

Cable recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Cable lengths. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

IF levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Serial interfaces. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

RS232 interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

RS422/485 interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

FSK interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Connecting the serial interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Permanent interface connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Temporary interface connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Monitor and control interface of the BUC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Installing the redundancy system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

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Mounting the redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Installing separate transmit and receive RF waveguide switches . . . . . 42

Installing the combined RF waveguide/coaxial switch (C-Band

transmit/receive systems only). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Connecting the power cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

Connecting the control cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Connecting the IF from the redundancy controller to the BUCs . . . . . . 48

Connecting the IF cables between an L-Band IF modem (or other

equipment) and the redundancy controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Connecting the IF from the LNBs to the redundancy controller . . . . . . 49

Grounding the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Serial interfaces of the BUCs from the redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . 50

Accessing the Auxiliary I/O interface on the redundancy controller . . . . . 51

Setting up the redundancy switching equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

3 Setting up and operating the BUC system

Switching on the BUC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

LED indicators. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Serial interface monitor and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Serial interface commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63

Switching the redundancy system on and off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Checking the operation of the LED indicators and controls . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Switching between streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

Controlling the redundancy system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

4 Maintenance and fault finding

Precautions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Connections to power supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Servicing requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

RF waveguide switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Fuses and overcurrent protection in the Redundancy Controller

6586 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

If technical assistance is required... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Finding faults in the BUC system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

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Using the BUC fault diagnosis charts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

Test procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Finding faults in the redundancy switching equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Replacing fuses in the redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Resolving inconsistent stream selections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Finding faults in an RF waveguide switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Finding faults in the redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Disconnecting a faulty BUC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

Reverting to a single-BUC earth station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Finding faults in the remote controller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109

Appendix A—BUC model and redundancy system

numbers

Appendix B—Example outputs for the View

commands

Appendix C—Compliance

Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

European R&TTE Directive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

Electromagnetic compatibility and safety notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123

Appendix D—Definitions

Standards and icons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128

Acronyms and abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Unit multipliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132

About this issue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Index

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List of figures

Figure 1: BUC with L-Band modem and LNB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Figure 2: BUC with L-Band modem, external in-line PSU,

and LNB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Figure 3: C-Band frequency conversion plan at an LO

frequency of 7300 MHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Figure 4: C-Band frequency conversion plan at an LO

frequency of 7375 MHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 5: C-Band frequency conversion plan at an LO

frequency of 7600 MHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Figure 6: C-Band frequency conversion plan at an LO

frequency of 7675 MHz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Figure 7: Ku-Band frequency conversion plan for BUCs

that cover the Standard frequency band . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Figure 8: Ku-Band frequency conversion plan for BUCs

that cover the Extended frequency band . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Figure 9: Control panel on the redundancy controller . . . . . . . . . . 18

Figure 10: Connector panel on the redundancy controller. . . . . . . . 19

Figure 11: IF levels required for short cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Figure 12: IF levels required for long cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Figure 13: Monitor and control interface of the BUC . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Figure 14: Auxiliary I/O interface of the redundancy controller . . . 52

Figure 15: Main BUC fault diagnosis chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Figure 16: BUC fault diagnosis chart 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87

Figure 17: BUC fault diagnosis chart 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88

Figure 18: BUC fault diagnosis chart 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

Figure 19: BUC fault diagnosis chart 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90

Figure 20: BUC fault diagnosis chart 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

Figure 21: BUC fault diagnosis chart 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

Figure 22: BUC fault diagnosis chart 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93

Figure 23: BUC fan fault diagnosis chart 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

Figure 24: BUC fan fault diagnosis chart 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Figure 25: LNB fault diagnosis chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

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Figure 26: RF waveguide switch fault diagnosis chart . . . . . . . . . .104

Figure 27: Remote controller supply fault diagnosis chart . . . . . . .110

Figure 28: Segments of the BUC model number . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111

Figure 29: Segments of the redundancy system number. . . . . . . . .113

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List of tables

Table 1: Transmit frequency bands for C-Band and

Ku-Band BUCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Table 2: Frequency ranges for C-Band BUCs (Standard) . . . . . . . 8

Table 3: Frequency ranges for C-Band BUCs (Extended) . . . . . . . 9

Table 4: Frequency ranges for Ku-Band BUCs (Standard) . . . . . 11

Table 5: Frequency ranges for Ku-Band BUCs (Extended). . . . . 12

Table 6: Power supply options for BUCs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Table 7: Frequency band options for the Ku-Band LNB . . . . . . . 15

Table 8: Pinouts of the AC INPUT connector

(Amphenol T 3110 000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Table 9: Recommendations for IF coaxial cables. . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Table 10: Cable lengths resulting in a 20 dB loss . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Table 11: LED indicators on the BUC and their states . . . . . . . . . 59

Table 12: LED indicators on the control panel of the

redundancy controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Table 13: Help commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

Table 14: Set commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Table 15: Output commands. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

Table 16: View commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Table 17: Reset commands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Table 18: Fuses in the redundancy controller. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

Table 19: Test A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Table 20: Test B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

Table 21: Test C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 22: Test D . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 23: Test E . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Table 24: Test F . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Table 25: Resistance of coils when the RF waveguide

switch is in positions 1 and 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Table 26: Tell-back contacts for switch positions 1 and 2 . . . . . . 108

Table 27: Definition of the BUC model number . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111

Table 28: Definition of the redundancy system number . . . . . . . 113

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Table 29: Electrical safety symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .125

Table 30: Earth symbols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

Table 31: Warning labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .126

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