User manual FURUNO SC-120 OPERATORS MANUAL

[. . . ] SATELLITE COMPASS SC-120 Your Local Agent/Dealer 9-52 Ashihara-cho, Nishinomiya, Japan Telephone : fax : 0798-65-2111 0798-65-4200 All rights reserved. Printed in Japan FIRST EDITION : MAR. OME-72490 ( KAMI ) SC-120 *00080919206* *00080919206* *00080919206* *OME72490P10* *OME72490P10* *OME72490P10* SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS Safety Instructions for the Operator Safety Instructions for the Installer WARNING Do not open the equipment. Immediately turn off the power at the switchboard if the equipment is emitting smoke or fire. Do not place liquid-filled containers on the top of the processor unit. [. . . ] 0 0 0 ' E SOG 0 . 0 kt HDG 2 7 8. 0 ° Position in Latitude, Longitude Nav data display 3-3 3. OPERATION Steering display The steering display mainly shows heading, in digital and analog form. The own ship mark points to heading on the bearing scale. 3D HDG 27 8. 0° 270 280 290 07:54 Bearing scale Lubber's mark 300 250 260 SOG 0 . 0 kt COG 1 2 3. 4 ° Steering display Compass display The compass display shows heading by compass direction, pitch and roll The compass rose rotates with heading. 3D 23:24:01 HDG NW W N 0. 0 ° ° SW NE Own ship symbol S E SE Pitching PIT +0 Rolling ROL +0° Compass display ROT (Rate-of-Turn) display The ROT display provides digital and analog indications of rate of turn. 3D 30 20 10 0 10 20 30 ROT scale ROT PORT ROT STBD 1 2 . 2 °/min ROT display Set and Drift display, Distance Run display Depending on the setting of DISTANCE DISP on the TRIP menu, the Set and Drift display or the Distance Run display is shown. The Set and Drift display requires the Doppler Speed Log DS-80 and it shows current direction and speed. 3D SOG kt STW kt CURRENT 21. 1 2. 2 22. 2 3 6 . 7 8 nm DISTANCE Set and Drift display Speed and Distance Run display Set and drift display, distance run display 3-4 3. OPERATION 3. 5 Alarms The SC-120 can alert you with audio and visual alarms when GPS data and DGPS data are lost. Press the [MENU] key to show the menu. MAIN MENU ALARMS MESSAGES GPS SETUP SYS SETUP SOFT VER. OTHERS SATELLITE DGPS I/O SETUP INST MENU ERASE TRIP MENU Main menu 2. Choose ALARMS and press the [ENT] key. ALARMS BUZZER : LONG DGPS : OFF HDG RESTORATION: MAN HDG BACKUP: 5MIN Alarm menu 3. Press the [ENT] key. SHORT LONG CONSTANT Alarm menu, GPS buzzer options 4. SHORT: Two short beeps LONG: Three long beeps CONSTANT: Continuous beep 5. HDG RESTORATION: Choose how to restore GPS signal, automatically or manually. HDG BACKUP: Choose how long to wait before stopping output of heading, when GPS signal is lost. 3-5 3. OPERATION 7. Press the [ENT] key. OFF ON DPGS options MAN AUTO HDG RESTORATION options Alarm menu, DGPS buzzer options 7. For HDG BACKUP, use or on the Omnipad to set time, from 1 to 5 (minutes). Press the [DISP] key to close the menu. 3. 6 Confirming Satellite Status You can check the receiving condition of each antenna element as follows: 1. Choose SATELLITE and press the [ENT] key. RX signal level Horizontal bar extends with signal strength. Satellite whose signal strength extends past the first vertical line is used for heading calculation. PositionNorth fixing status DOP 3D 07 02 N Elevation angle 5° 10 08 12 01 GPS1 Antenna element no. DOP 01 1. 5 02 -04 06 05 06 07 04 08 -05 10 -12 Elevation angle 45° Satellites shown in white on black are used for calculation of heading. Satellite status display 3. [. . . ] Checksum A-8 APPENDIX A VTG - Course over ground and ground speed COG and SOG obtained by processing the GPS signals. $GPVTG, x. x, T, x. x, M, x. x, N, x. x, K, p*hh<CR><LF> Positioning mode indicator* Speed, km/h Speed, knots Course degrees magnetic Course degrees true *A = Autonomous, D = Differential, E = estimated(dead reckoning), M = Manual input, S = Simulator, N = Data not valid. The Status field shall be set to V=invalid for all values of Operating Mode except for A=Autonomous and D=Differential. The positioning system Mode indicator and Status field shall not be null fields. ZDA - Time and date UTC, day, month, year and local time zone. $GPZDA. [. . . ]