Installation Overview

Vaisala weather radar systems are delivered with RCP pre-installed in the radar cabinet.

For RCP-only deliveries, the hardware installation includes mechanical installation and siting, electrical specifications of the interface signals, system-level considerations, and the standard connector panel.

RCP and IRIS Radar software can be installed on the same PC, the radar server computer, with no hardware changes.

RCP can be connected to weather radar systems from different manufacturers.

To support flexibility, much of RCP8 I/O is configured using software. Because there is nearly no custom wiring, it is easy to insert spare modules and circuit cards.

For software configuration instructions, see IRIS and RDA Software Installation Guide (M211315EN).