Keysight N2902B Installation Guide

Keysight N2902B Rack
Mount Kit for S-Series and
9000 Series Oscilloscopes

Installation
Guide

Notices

CAUTION

WARNING

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N2902-97002

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Second edition, October 2014

Printed in Malaysia

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In This Guide

This guide contains instructions for installing the Keysight N2902B Rack Mount
Kit. The rack mount kit provides a support shelf and hardware for mounting
Infiniium S-Series and 9000 Series oscilloscopes into Electronic Industries
Association (EIA) standard 19-inch (487-mm) rack cabinets.

Included Parts

The rack mount kit includes the following parts:

• Support tray

• Trim plate (consists of a bottom piece, top piece, and two side pieces)

• BNC connectors to be inserted into the bottom trim plate

• Black rubber stoppers to plug holes in bottom trim plate if the hole is not being
used for a BNC connection

•Two track rails

•Two feet brackets

• Sheet metal nuts

• Four sets of screws: cream-colored pan head screws for attaching the trim
plate pieces, metallic pan head screws for attaching the side rails to the rack,
metallic M4 screws for attaching the feet brackets to the support tray, and
another set of M4 screws for attaching the feet brackets to the oscilloscope.

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Top trim plate piece

Right
trim
plate
piece

Left
trim
plate
piece

Bottom trim plate piece

BNC connectors

Cream-colored screws

Feet bracket

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Installation

This distance is
equivalent to
1 rack unit

Rack front view

Rack side view

Rack units may be
designated by arrows.
If not, narrow hole spacing
indicates start/stop point
of rack unit.

The following tools are required for installing the rackmount kit:

• T20 Torx driver

• #2 Phillips screwdriver

Preparing the Rack

1 To prepare the rack for sheet metal nut installation, eight rack mount units

must be designated for use. The following diagram shows how to determine a
rack unit.

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4 nuts installed for track
rail. Locations must align

Rear of Rack

Front of Rack

Distance from uppermost nut
to lowermost nut is equal
to 8 rack units (picture shows

To insure proper rail nut
installation, align with
this nut on front of rack.

front and rear.

only 7 rack units).

The following figure indicates proper locations for sheet metal nut locations. To
ensure a level installation, the same eight rack unit locations are used on each
vertical rack piece. NOTE: The picture shows only seven rack units.

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2 Attach the track rails to the rack using the four 10-32 pan head screws

Track rails

10-32 pan head
screws

provided and a #2 Phillips screwdriver.

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Installing the Oscilloscope into the Rack

Remove screws

1 Remove the two M4 screws from the rear panel of the oscilloscope.

2 Attach the feet brackets to the oscilloscope using the two supplied M4 16mm

screws.

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3 Place the support tray onto a table, then place the oscilloscope onto the

support tray. Line up the feet bracket screw holes with the holes in the support
tray.

Line up screw holes

4 Attach cables to the side panel BNC connectors on the oscilloscope and route

them under the oscilloscope through the indentation in the support tray. (Later,
these cables will be connected to the bottom trim plate BNC connectors so you
can have access to these BNCs once the oscilloscope is installed in the rack.)
Let the end of the cables that pass under the oscilloscope just dangle for now.
In a later step you will attach them to the bottom trim plate BNCs.

5 Plug the power cord into the oscilloscope and route it through the back so you

can plug it into a power outlet after installation.

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6 Use two M4 screws to secure each foot bracket to the support tray.

7 The oscilloscope and support tray should now look like the following picture

except you may have cables connected to the side panel BNCs if you chose to
attach them.

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8 Move the oscilloscope and support tray over to the rack. Using the rails, slide

the tray into the rack.

9 Connect the other end of each of the cables you routed under the oscilloscope

to one of the BNC connectors in the bottom trim plate piece as shown below. If
you do not want to install all five BNC connectors into the openings in the
bottom face plate, you can fill the holes with the supplied rubber stoppers.

.

10 Attach the bottom trim plate piece to the rack using two cream-colored pan

head screws. Then attach the side trim plate pieces using two cream-colored
pan head screws on each side. NOTE: When attaching the side face plate
pieces, be sure the screw holes are located toward the outside.

11 Attach the top trim plate piece to the rack with two cream-colored pan head

screws, being sure that it slides into the notch on the top of the oscilloscope.

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The top trim plate fits into this notch.

The oscilloscope is now fully installed and should look similar to the following
picture.

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Dimensions

32.5 cm

23.2 cm

32.8 cm

43.3 cm

48.3 cm

31.1 cm

The following table shows the approximate dimensions for the rack mount trim
plate pieces.

Side trim plate pieces Bottom trim plate piece Top trim plate pieces

• Height: 31.1 cm (12.24 in) • Width: 48.3 cm (19 in) • Wid th: 48.3 cm (19 in)

• Wid th: 2.5 cm (0.985 in) • Height: 2.84 cm (1.12 in) • Height: 1.57 cm (0.62 in)

The following diagrams show the dimensions of an Infiniium S-Series oscilloscope
in an N2902B rack mount.

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This information is subject to change
without notice.

© Keysight Technologies, Inc. 2014

Printed in Malaysia
Second edition, October 2014

*N2902-97002*

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