PXI 5600 physically incompatible with PXIe-1075 Chassis

[FilipeTaveiros]

Hi everyone,

I have a PXI-1042 chassis that I use with the PXI-5600 Downconverter and PXI-5620 digitizer. Also, I have another chassis PXIe-1075 that I also use with the PXI-5600 Downconverter and one PXI-5142 digitizer.

These modules that I describe are ALL Standard CompactPCI peripheral products, that means, not PXI express. Obviously, I use them on the hybrid slots of the PXI Express 1075 chassis.

It turns out that my PXI-1042 power source had a problem, so I ordered a new chassis, equal to the other one I have PXIe-1075. When I tried to install the modules PXI-5600 Downconverter and PXI-5620 digitizer into the new chassis and I had a bad surprise:

They are physically incompatible!!! How is that possible? They are the same I use in the other PXIe-1075 chassis, the only the difference is the digitizer but is also NOT EXPRESS.

So, I removed the PXI-5600 Downconverter and PXI-5142 digitizer, from the first PXIe-1075 and compared with the others that where from the dead chassis, these are the photos:

The above pictures are from the PXI-5600 Downconverter and PXI-5142 digitizer that I have in my PXIe-1075 chassis.

The pictures below are from the modules that I removed from the dead PXI-1042 chassis, showing they are different. 

Now I have a new $ 7,000 chassis that I cant use with my modules because of that. What am I suppose to do? Is it possible to remove that portion of the connector as in the first pictures?

Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

Regards.

[KittF]

You have an old PXI-5600.  Newer revisions (rev and later = E191764E-xx )  have a modified connector that allows them to be inserted into hybrid compatible slots in newer chassis.  You can likely send in your old PXI-5600 to NI to have the connector modified to fit into your new chassis.  There is a fee for this conversion. This document explains the connector change.

http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/3882

I'd recommend you call NI.