Angling Technics Limited
Instructions
Thank you very much for purchasing the Fulcrum Navigator. Please spare a few minutes to familiarise
yourself with this system before you use it.
Overview
The Fulcrum Navigator is a satellite navigation system designed for baitboats of any manufacture.
As well as a number of other functions, it replaces physical marker buoys with an invisible electronic version.
It can store and retrieve up to seventy five electronic markers which can then be used to guide your baitboat
to a spot with high precision and ease – time and again, day and night on any water in the world.
The system comprises two parts, a boat transponder which contains the satellite receiver and a shore based
handset mounted LCD display. The boat transponder is usually powered directly by the boat and the display
by internal rechargeable NMH batteries.
The boat transponder
uses satellites to find its location on earth and
sends this information to the shore based unit
.
The shore unit
then
calculates where the boat is, relative to the ‘marker’, and provides simple
distance and direction indications as to how to get to the marker. In
addition to this, the display indicates the voltage of the boat battery
together with an ability to warn you when the boat battery is getting low.
Another very useful feature on the display is an arrow indicating which
direction the boat is heading – obvious at fifty yards but not quite so easy
at two hundred in poor light.
Fitting
The transponder is designed to fit straight onto the Angling Technics standard baitboat or the Microcat which
provide its power supply via the gold connector (centre positive). The
Safety Link
fitted to the transponder
must be attached to somewhere on the boat. If you have another type of boat then you can use the
transponder power pack (available separately)
The shore unit has been designed to
fit most of the current radio
transmitters from Futaba, Acoms and
Hitec. Simply remove the backing
from the two
Velcro
pads and place
them where the Z brackets align on
the back of the transmitter as shown
here. Ensure that the rubber patch
on the rear lower edge of the metal
housing of the shore unit lies against
the transmitter body. The shore unit
can then simply be attached or
removed as required.
