Kiloview Cradle Series 16-Channel Redundant Power Rackmount Frame (3 RU)

The Kiloview RU03 (often cataloged as KIL-RU03) is a professional-grade, high-density 3RU rackmount chassis belonging to the Kiloview Cradle Series. Built for television control rooms, outside broadcast (OB) vans, and large enterprise data hubs, this chassis serves as a centralized power, cooling, and mounting mainframe. It houses and operates up to sixteen modular, hot-swappable encoding or decoding cards, allowing engineers to manage dozens of video streams from a single rack footprint.

The core distinction of the standard RU03 model is that it features a single high-efficiency 300-Watt power supply unit out of the box, with an available slot to manually add a second backup supply later if production needs scale up.

Core Engineering and Structural Features

• High-Density Modular Space Optimization: The chassis utilizes a vertical slot configuration that fits up to sixteen separate Kiloview plug-in cards (such as the REN-2 encoding cards or RD-260/RD-350 decoding cards). Depending on the specific modules inserted, a single 3RU frame can comfortably handle up to thirty-two concurrent channels of video processing.

• 300-Watt Expandable Power Architecture: The frame ships with a single 300-Watt internal power supply module designed to deliver stable current across the backplane. The chassis frame includes a pre-wired open bay on the rear panel, allowing teams to upgrade to a dual-redundant power configuration down the road as budget or technical requirements grow.

• Centralized Thermal Management Array: Processing massive amounts of multi-channel network video generates a high thermal load. The RU03 integrates a centralized cooling fan bank equipped with intelligent temperature sensors. These fans automatically dial their rotational speed up or down based on current chassis heat levels, ensuring safe twenty-four-seven operation.

• Hot-Swappable Module Maintenance: The physical mounting tracks use a simple thumb-screw clamping rail design. This lets broadcast technicians install, replace, or service individual encoding and decoding cards instantly from the front or rear of the rack without needing to shut down or reboot the other active cards in the frame.

• Unified Grounding and Clean Backplane: The internal backplane distributes centralized DC power evenly to every slot, completely eliminating the clutter of sixteen individual power bricks, wall warts, or messy cable runs inside the back of your gear rack.

Hardware Technical Specifications Matrix

💡 Operational System Tips for the RU03 Chassis

The Power Consumption Math Rule: Before completely packing all sixteen slots of your RU03 mainframe with high-end processing cards, calculate your total electrical footprint. While a standard encoding module might only draw twelve to fifteen Watts, newer 4K multi-protocol cards require significantly more current. Keep the total combined power draw of your sixteen active cards safely under twenty percent of the primary power supply's three hundred Watt ceiling to maintain ideal component efficiency and prevent thermal tripping.

• Leave Vent Space in Your Main Rack: Because the RU03 relies on drawing cool air through its front panel and pushing warm air out through the rear exhaust fans, never block the space directly above or below the unit with solid, deep equipment shelves or unvented blanks. Leaving a single open half-rack unit of open space directly above the frame allows rising heat to dissipate smoothly away from your sensitive encoding hardware.