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Table of Contents

1 Introduction and description of fluxgate compass.
1.1
Description of compass
1.2
1.2.1
1.2.2
Variants -CP
1.3
1.4
1.5
1.6
2.1
2.2
3.1
3.2
Furuno AD-10
4 Calibrating the compass.
4.1
4.2
4.3
Aborting a bad calibration.
4.4
4.5
5 Configuration
1. Introduction and description of fluxgate compass.
1.1 Description of compass.
The Astra Yacht NMEA compass unit is a complete component for a compass system indicating,
RADAR 'North-up' input or autopilot. It is housed in a water-resistant enclosure so it can be
mounted outside a steel hull. It delivers heading data in two industry-standard forms.
The A5022 contains a fluxgate with floating core surrounded by high-precision interface circuits, which,
together with the special clockwise/anticlockwise and offset nulling sequence allow a
microprocessor to acquire a binary value from two orthogonal sensors of the horizontal component
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