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Conference ssdevo::hsz40_product

Title:HSZ40 Product Conference
Moderator:SSDEVO::EDMONDS
Created:Mon Apr 11 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:902
Total number of notes:3319

809.0. "Battery Cable Problem - It won't Fit!" by AUSSIE::BEVERIDGE (Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put in!) Thu Mar 13 1997 00:03

We have come across a problem with the 17-04321-02 cable for connection between
the Cache Module and the Battery on HSZ50s.

The connector ferrules on each side of the conatct area seem to have been
changed. Although the outside diameter has been retained, the wall is now
thicker. the result of this is that it will not fit over the mating posts on the
battery module and also the cache module.

I don't know whether anyone else has found this problem, but we have -
comprehensively! If this problem is known, and has been addressed, what is the
fix?

Regards

Tim Beveridge
CSS Sydney, Australia.

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809.1HSZ50 battery cache cable problem 17-04321-02TIMAST::HUGHESTue Mar 18 1997 18:4111
    I have also seen this problem and had to physically modify the cable to
    get it to attach properly to both the HSZ cache module and the battery.
    
    Also, manufacturing accidently shipped 3 of these cables with my HSZ
    pair. So I have an unmodified defective cable for whomever to disect.
    
    I have attempted an IPMT case but Colorado can't see the call that was
    logged. I will be issueing a IPMT case on this problem as soon as I get
    the opportunity to do it all over again.
    
    Dave
809.2HSZ 50 Battery CablesAUSSIE::BEVERIDGEWed Mar 19 1997 01:0311
I have also started an IPMT action via MCS here in Sydney.

I presume that the deathly silence on this issue means
that it has yet to be addressed.

Is somebody looking into this?

Regards

Tim Beveridge
CSS Sydney
809.3SSDEVO::T_GONZALESWed Mar 19 1997 12:412
    Is this a fairly new system? When did you recieve the hardware?
    
809.4Shipped in December 96TIMAST::HUGHESWed Mar 19 1997 16:037
    I received my hardware in December. The customer was slow in upgrading
    the HSZ40's to 50's due to unavailable downtime. I suspect it is a very
    small number of cables that were shipped have this problem. I have
    installed about 12 HSJ50's (which use the exact same cable) and have not
    seen the problem on any of them.
    
    Dave
809.5Bad connectors on some (all?) ECB cables with date code of 50/96SSDEVO::THOMPSONPaul Thompson, Colorado SpringsMon Mar 24 1997 13:276
Some bad connectors made it to some (all?) cables made with a date code of
50/96 on the cable.  Most of these were caught in manufacturing, but
obviuosly some made it to the field.

Replacement cables should be fine.  The bad connectors can be identified by a
slot on the sides of the sleeves over the screws.