CASSENS & PLATH REFLECTA/1, Operation & Installation

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Introduction, General
REFLECTA/1
Page A5 Mounting & Operations Manual
Alterations / Errors reserved
Cassens & Plath GmbH, Kompasshaus, Am Lunedeich 131, 27572 Bremerhaven, Germany, tel +49 471 4839990, fax +49 471 48399910
www.cassens-plath.de, sales@cassens-plath.de
Range of delivery
Compass Binnacle
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Reflector compass binnacle with mounting pieces, hood without window (as option also window with/without
oil lamp), magnetic bearing/reflector compass Type 11, azimuth device in wooden box with one shadow pin.
Correctors
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B+C-correctors, consisting of six bar magnets 100 mm long x 10 mm

(at delivery inserted in magnet
magazine behind B+C-corrector).
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Heeling-corrector, consisting of one each heeling magnet of 50 mm and 125 mm length, 25 mm

, within
magnet tube with numbered chain (at delivery inserted in heeling magnet guiding tube inside binnacle
column).
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D-correctors (as standard) consisting of two weak iron spheres of 180 mm

(at delivery separatly packed).
One each bracket moved intercardinal of port and startboard to fix the D-spheres upon
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Flinder´s bar (as option), consisting of Flinder´s bar tube with upper and lower bracket (already fixed to the
binnacle) as well as cover, one set of wooden spacer pieces (inserted in Flinder´s bar tube), one set of weak
iron cylinders (one piece of 305, 152, 76 and 38 mm long), packed separately.

E-corrector (as option), consisting two weak iron spheres of 180 mm

(at delivery separate packed). One
each bracket port and starboard to fix the E-spheres.
Reflection tube

Reflection tube with mirror head (extendable mirror head only if no horizontal by-pass) and mounting flange,
rubber gasket and facing ring.
Accessories as option
Instruction are included separately as required.
Approvals
REFLECTA/1 is type approved by all leading maritime authorities as A-class compass for worldwide use.
The most important approvals are:
MED – European Community, DNV GL SE – Germanischer Lloyd, USCG – US Coast Gard,
CCS – China Classification Society, RMRS – Russian Maritime Register of Shipping, RRR – Russian
River Register.
Certificates of Lloyds Register of Shipping LRS, Amercian Bureau of Shipping ABS can be supplied on request.
REFLECTA/1 fullfills the international specifications: ISO 25862:2009(E) and IMO A.382(X), SOLAS (1992,
Chapter V, Regulation 12) Amendment: Directive 2010/68/EC, 2011/75/EC, 2013/52/EU as well as IMO High
Speed Craft-Code.
The required approval has to be stated with order because there are technical differences.