I have to say that so far i have come across quite a number of radars in the market including furuno and JRC radars make from Japan, Kelvin Hughes radar from UK, Kongsberg Maritime radar DB10 from Norway. Furuno radar has quite a big share market in commercial marine due to it’s cheap and good […]
This is a tanker. Ship request to replace both port and stbd wing bearing repeaters. Consider very reliable since it has been working for the pass ten years. Checked the bearing repeater by pressing on the sync button. Bearing repeater will spin anti-clockwise for approx. half turn and sync button will blink. Pressing the sync […]
This is a bulk carrier. It was due for annual servicing while ship approx. one year old. New build from China yard. The housing was black in color. No mercury needed for this model of gyrosphere stock no. 074829. Checked the gyrosphere current before switching off for servicing = 237mA, temperature = 46deg. Ph. Bridge = […]
GMS Marine Electronic: LAZ5100 Echo Sounder Transducer replacement
GMS Marine Electronic: MX Marine / Simrad MX420 DGPS System
This is a container ship. Ship crew has complaint about the bridge watch monitoring alarm has continuously giving visual and audio alarm once the watch alarm generator switches on. Try to press the reset button on reset unit at bridge did not help. The worst is that the alarm has trigger all the way to all alarm […]
As this has become a requirement to connect high speed nmea Gyro compass signal to radar. Typical set at baudrate of 38400bps.KW950E was able to fulfill this requirement. During the interface of C-plath nmea Gyro signal to Sperry marine VMFT radar, we used KW950E to connect input with 4800bps and ouput 38400bps to both radar […]
I was attending a sperry marine BME radar service onboard a container at eastern OPL. Travel in the morning and return at night. Some of the very beautiful ships i have taken along the way to service trip.
I still remember the first radar i had encounter fall all the way back in 1990. It was ARPA Decca 1626 True Motion X-band radar. During that time, i have no idea what is this piece of equipment doing good for us? I see yellow patches on the PPI(Plan Position Indicator) screen rotate in clockwise […]
The ship’s captain complaint of gyro compass keep rotate in clockwise direction. Attend onboard and found as discribed by ship crew. Enter setup access code 610, checked gyrosphere current approx. 265mA and temperature approx. 72deg – very high.Switch off the gyro compass and waited one hour for gyro sphere to settle. Remove the upper housing and found gyro […]
