3. ADVANCED SONAR OPERATION

3.9Suppressing Effects of Pitching and Rolling (Stabilizer)

The Motion Sensor MS-100 (option) compensates for the affects of pitching and rolling to provide steady, non-fading pictures, along the bearing selected. Follow the procedure below to use the stabilizer feature.

 

 

Tilt angle

Stabilizer activated

 

Ship tilts

on front beam

 

compensated

 

 

in bow direction

 

 

Not displayed

 

Displayed

Displayed

Displayed

 

 

Not displayed

 

Not displayed

 

(You want to

 

Beam before

 

display this

 

 

fish school)

 

stabilizer activated

No pitching and rolling

Ship is pitching and rolling

Stabilizer turned ON

 

 

(Tilt angle compensated

 

 

in one direction only.

 

 

Echo in opposite direction

 

 

is not displayed.)

 

How the stabilizer works

 

1.Operate the trackball to place the trackball mark on the bearing where you want the stabilizer the picture.

2.Press the [STABILIZER] key. The stabilizer mark, a dashed line extending from the screen center to the edge of the effective diameter of the sonar display, appears on the bearing selected and “STAB” appears at the top right corner of the sonar display.

Stabilizer ON

STAB

Stablizer Mark Picture is stabilizer on bearing chosen with this mark.

B 45S

Stablizer bearing data

Stabilizer mark

Note: If the target lock function is active when the stabilizer is turned on, the stabilizer works on the bearing selected for the target lock feature (target lock function has higher priority) and the stabilizer mark is not displayed. Even when target lock is deactivated the stabilizer operates on the bearing selected for target lock.

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Furuno CSH-5L/CSH-8L Suppressing Effects of Pitching and Rolling Stabilizer, How the stabilizer works, Stabilizer mark

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