Any ideas what this is? Neat looking, whatever it is.
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Any ideas what this is? Neat looking, whatever it is.
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Comments (3)
Some buttons label 'Nav' & 'wpt' which are GPS specific. Some controls for 220v (heavy duty motors) and 110v and heaters.
Paper stick on note: 'angle/deg'
I would guess this is a Military panel. For testing communications to a remote device. Very low level, send receive 16-bit words, confirmation the sent = received.
Join the 'Army of One' confused motherf@$ker trying to operate this crap.
Posted by Pauric | March 23, 2007 8:40 AM
Posted on March 23, 2007 08:40
The grey square unit looks a pre-gps inertial and radio ground station military autopilot; the size and lugs are right for cockpit avionics, and there's options entering for waypoints, ground station track (tk/gs), cross track error/track angle error (xtk/tke), a change waypoint button, and an mode selector - off, stand-by, align (I think that tells the inertial to align to the magnetic), nav (auto navigate) and att (attitude control).
I only recognise a little of what the test buttons do - a very little of my work has touched on automatic fault diagnosis in autopilots, and this one is way older that anything I've seen in real life.
Posted by Pete Kirkham | March 23, 2007 12:58 PM
Posted on March 23, 2007 12:58
My guess is a testset for avionics.
Posted by Ritchie | April 17, 2007 11:48 AM
Posted on April 17, 2007 11:48