Simrad EK80 - Verifying the Communication with the Course Gyro

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4Makesurethatallapplicabletransceiversandtransducersareconnectedand

operational.

Foreachtransceiver,thisisindicatedbythegreenlabelwithtext"Installed".

5RepeatthiscycleforeachWideBandTransceiver(WBT)inuse.

aClickonthetransceivertoselectit.

bInthetransceiverlist,readthenameofthetransducerinuse.

cIntheTransceiverInformationeld,readthefollowinginformation:

•Identity

•TXFirmwareversion

•RXFirmwareversion

•Softwareversion

6Fillintheresulttable.

7ClosetheInstallationdialogbox.

Relatedtopics

Customeracceptanceform,page46

Secondaryprocedures,page47

TestingtheEK80operationalfunctionality,page27

Verifyingthecommunicationwiththecourse

gyro

Withouttheinputfromacoursegyro,theEK80willnotbeabletopresentcorrect

navigationalinformation.Thecurrentheadingisshownonthetopbarifyouhave

enabledthisintheDisplayOptionsdialogbox.Thecommunicationwiththesensor

istested.

Prerequisites

TheEK80isinstalledasspeciedintheEK80Installationmanual.

•ThesensorisconnectedtoacommunicationportontheEK80.Thesensoristurned

onandinnormaloperation.

•Theinterfaceportissetupwiththecorrectcommunicationparameters.

•YouarefamiliarwithNMEAandotherrelevantdatagramformats.

•Youknowhowtosetuptheparametersforserialandlocalareanetwork(LAN)

communication.

•Allrelevantvesseldrawings,installationreportsand/ormeasurementresultsare

available.

TestingtheEK80operationalfunctionality

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