Installation
REFLECTA/5
Page E12
Mounting & Operations Manual
2. Put the Compass into its suspension. Before remove the suspension cover plates. Compass ahead is
marked by “Ahead“. Carefully fix the suspension covers again after inserting the compass. Make sure the
compass is swinging freely. The detector cables (if any) must not obscure the reflection field of view. Keep
the detector cables loose so that free movement of the compass is not affected. Cables must be kept away
from hot illumination bulbs. Make sure that the compass does not show obvious defects (bubbles, inclined
directional system, misbalanced compass ...).
3. Switch on the illumination and check it. Check dimmer function (if any).
4. Check the reflection reading at the helmsman´s position. It should be comfortably readable from a distance of
appr. 1 m to the mirror head, symmetric in composition, the figures should be upright and an area of at least
15° to both sides of the lubber mark should be clearly visible. Make sure that the reflection reading is not
obscured by any obstacle like illumination or detector cables.
In case of long optical ways (long by-passes) the picture may be much smaller than the reflection mirror.
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Short optical way: large picture Long optical way: small picture
5. Can the mirror head and reflection mirror be turned? Are white and black mirror of the reflection mirror
undamaged?
6. Make sure that the B+C correctors are available for compass adjustment. At delivery B+C-magnets are
located in their magazines behind the B+C-covers. Refer to chapter “Compass Binnacle, Outline“.
7. Check that the heeling magnet is available. At delivery it is located inside a brass tube with screwed on
cover and adjusting chain. This adjusting chain is visible when looking from above into the binnacle column
(after removing of compass). Refer to chapter “Adjustment“.
8. Put the D-spheres on their consoles port and starboard of the binnacle column and fix it preliminarily. The
guiding piece is orientated towards the binnacle.
9. If a Flinder´s bar is mounted to the compass binnacle make available the four weak iron cylinders for
adjustment. These are separately packed and added to the delivery. Four wooden spacer pieces are to be
found within the Flinder´s bar.
Alterations / Errors reserved
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