
14 | Operation
If the connected products have no offset feature, the
compass must be deck or bulkhead mounted athwart ship
with the cable gland pointing back.
Select a location that provides a solid mounting place free
from vibration, and as close to the vessel's centre of roll
and pitch as possible, i.e. close to the water line. It
should be as far as possible from disturbing magnetic
interference e.g. engines (min. 2 meters), engine ignition
cables, other large metal objects and particularly the
autopilot drive unit. On steel hull boats it should be
mounted 0,75-1 m above the wheel house on a non
magnetic stand.
The compass face plate is the TOP. Never mount it upside
down! Level the sensor as close to horizontal as possible.
Use the supplied mounting kit and drill holes through the
centre of the slots.
Connect the compass to an available SimNet connector in
the SimNet “backbone”.
2.8 Interfacing
With the autopilot system there are several possibilities
to connect to other equipment for data collection and
exchange:
1 Use SimNet
2 Use SimNet via AT10 Universal SimNet/NMEA
Converter
3 Connect to a NMEA2000 network via adapter
(drop) cable, part no. 24005729.
The different connecting diagrams on the following pages
illustrate the interface possibilities of the autopilots.
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