Rolls-Royce Helicon X3, User Manual

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Operating Instructions
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Revision: A Copyright © 2010 Rolls-Royce plc
1 General
This chapter gives a brief overview on how to operate the Helicon X3 system. For
practical reasons, it is not possible to go into particulars about all available functions.
Instead, the graphical user interface (GUI) is designed to be as self-explanatory as
possible. In the following sections, the most common functions are described in detail.
Caution: Before operating the equipment, please refer to chapter 2, Safety for the
general statement, safety and warnings instructions.
2 Controlling the thrusters
There are three ways of controlling the thrusters with Helicon X3:
• Control lever
• Control panel
• Emergency operation
2.1 System Overview
The system overview page on the control panel gives an overview of the most essential
information for all propulsion units. The system overview page is the normal view if not
activation of functions or alarms require attention to other pages.
The common command change buttons are located on this page. Using these buttons
makes it possible to take command for all thrusters by pressing only one
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