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Installing Your HAL System, Task 1: Install and Connect HAL

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CHAPTER 3: Installing Your HAL System This chapter includes all the details for the seven steps required for installing your HAL System. Task 1: Install and Connect HAL You can work on-site or off-site to install the HAL into the audio rack. Following are a few things to consider for each approach; l If installing on-site, we recommend that you install, connect, power on, and configure the HAL (and EXP devices, if needed) and install and terminate the shielded CAT 5e cable prior to installing the EXPs, RADs and DRs. Done in this order, you can verify that the EXPs, RADs and DRs are working properly as soon as you connect them. l If installing off-site, you will obviously not be installing the RADs and DRs into walls. We do recommend however, that you load the configuration file and connect the EXPs, RADs and DRs to the HAL during the off-site installation so that you can fully test the configuration. TIP: Now is also a good time to label the RADs to ensure that you install and connect the same RADs in the same HAL (or EXP) ports on which they were tested. See "Generating Device Labels" on page 94 for details on generating and attaching labels. Because DRs have LCD display screens, there is no need to generate physical labels for them. TIP: If you want to use RAD functionality in your audio rack near a HAL or EXP, a nice solution is to install RADs in the rack using special expansion devices. We suggest you take a look at the rack device products by Lowell (specifically the LD9-RMP) or by Radio Design Labs (specifically the RM-D9 rack mount product). Installing HAL in your Audio Rack Following are the detailed steps for installing the HAL hardware into the audio rack and connecting it to your Ethernet network. You can rely on the LED indicators on the hardware for basic device and connection status information. To see more details about the system status, however, you'll need to install the Halogen software. But first, let's start with the hardware. To review the front and rear panel hardware details, see "HAL Front and Rear Panels" on page 14. To install and connect the HAL: 1. Attach the HAL (and all other audio equipment) to the audio rack. 2. If the system will be using an Ethernet network, connect the HAL to it. Plug one end of a standard Eth- ernet cable (or an Ethernet crossover cable) into the Ethernet port on the back of the HAL. Plug the other end into the Ethernet network switch. An Ethernet crossover cable is provided with the product. NOTE: If there is no Ethernet network, you can skip this step for now. You will use this port later to connect a computer directly to the HAL (for configuration and management of the device). 72

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CHAPTER 3: Installing Your HAL System
This chapter includes all the details for the seven steps required for installing your HAL System.
Task 1: Install and Connect HAL
You can work on-site or off-site to install the HAL into the audio rack. Following are a few things to consider for
each approach;
l
If installing on-site, we recommend that you install, connect, power on, and configure the HAL (and EXP
devices, if needed) and install and terminate the shielded CAT 5e cable prior to installing the EXPs, RADs
and DRs. Done in this order, you can verify that the EXPs, RADs and DRs are working properly as soon as
you connect them.
l
If installing off-site, you will obviously not be installing the RADs and DRs into walls. We do recommend
however, that you load the configuration file and connect the EXPs, RADs and DRs to the HAL during the
off-site installation so that you can fully test the configuration.
TIP
:
Now is also a good time to label the RADs to ensure that you install and connect the same RADs in the
same HAL (or EXP) ports on which they were tested. See "Generating Device Labels" on page 94 for details
on generating and attaching labels. Because DRs have LCD display screens, there is no need to generate
physical labels for them.
TIP
:
If you want to use RAD functionality in your audio rack near a HAL or EXP, a nice solution is to
install RADs in the rack using special expansion devices. We suggest you take a look at the rack device
products by Lowell (specifically the LD9-RMP) or by Radio Design Labs (specifically the RM-D9 rack
mount product).
Installing HAL in your Audio Rack
Following are the detailed steps for installing the HAL hardware into the audio rack and connecting it to your Eth-
ernet network. You can rely on the LED indicators on the hardware for basic device and connection status infor-
mation. To see more details about the system status, however, you’ll need to install the Halogen software. But first,
let’s start with the hardware. To review the front and rear panel hardware details, see "HAL Front and Rear Panels"
on page 14.
To install and connect the HAL:
1.
Attach the HAL (and all other audio equipment) to the audio rack.
2.
If the system will be using an Ethernet network, connect the HAL to it. Plug one end of a standard Eth-
ernet cable (or an Ethernet crossover cable) into the Ethernet port on the back of the HAL. Plug the other
end into the Ethernet network switch. An Ethernet crossover cable is provided with the product.
NOTE
:
If there is no Ethernet network, you can skip this step for now. You will use this port later to
connect a computer directly to the HAL (for configuration and management of the device).
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