4.

AUTOPILOT PT900 Series

Adjustment
- CAN ADAPTER θ signal adjustment
- HAND STEERING UNIT adjustment

2015.03.

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 Adjustment procedure of rudder order signal θ
‹ After completion of adjusting the Control & Power box in steering gear
room…
‹ Adjustment on the ZERO & SPAN of output θ signal from CAN ADAPTER
(ZERO:VR2, SPAN:VR1 on CAN ADAPTER BD)
‹ Adjustment on the indication of HAND STEERING UNIT
(Digital adjustment of magnetic encoder)

CPU
CPU

CPU
DRIVER
DRIVER

CAN
CAN
DRIVER
CAN
DRIVER
CPU

CAN

CPU
DRIVER
CAN

CPU
DRIVER
DRIVER

CAN
CAN
CPU

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 Adjustment of CAN ADAPTER (Connection)
Rudder order signal θ
‹ The ammeter is connected in
series between CAN ADAPTER
and C&P box.
‹ The acceptable error range of θ
output is within ±0.05mA from
target value.
‹ VR1 and VR2 on CAN ADAPTER
are multi-rotation volumes.
‹ To measure the voltage between
θ and COM is NOT our
recommended method.

VR2 VR1
ZERO SPAN A A
adjustment adjustment

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 Adjustment of CAN ADAPTER (Screen)
4 Setting 4-9 Maintenance

4-9-7 Output the simulated signal 4-9 Maintenance

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 Adjustment of CAN ADAPTER (Screen)
4-9-7 Output the simulated signal
Item Parameter
1
Commanded
rudder
output

2
Commanded
rudder angle

‹ While the “Enable” is selected, the steering mode is automatically set

to “AUTO” and kept this mode.
‹ Once the screen is returned to the previous one, the simulated signal
is stopped. That means “Commanded rudder output” is returned to
“Disable” automatically.
‹ The output range of commanded rudder angle is P35 to S35 every 1
degree. (It doesn’t depend on the ship’s own rudder angle range.)

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 Adjustment procedure of HAND STEERING UNIT
‹ Confirmation of the deviation on rudder angle indication between HAND
STEERING UNIT and APCDU
‹ This is the adjustment for the deviation of indication between HAND
STEERING UNIT and APCDU.
¾ This is NOT the adjustment for the deviation between the actual
rudder angle signal and order one.
‹ Adjustment of HAND STEERING UNIT means the ZERO & SPAN setting
of magnetic encoder to indicate on APCDU correspondently.
‹ All magnetic encoders can be synchronized by one execution.

APCDU’s rudder angle APCDU’s rudder angle APCDU’s rudder angle

S35°
0°
HAND’s HAND’s HAND’s
rudder rudder rudder
angle angle angle
30

P35°

ZERO adjustment S35゜adjustment P35゜adjustment

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 Adjustment of HAND STEERING UNIT (Screen)
4 Setting 4-9 Maintenance

4-9-5 Unit adjustment 4-9 Maintenance

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 Adjustment of HAND STEERING UNIT (Screen)
4-9-5-1 Adjust hand center position 4-9-5-1 Adjust hand center position

Item (default) Parameter

1 HAND wheel
position
2 Adjustment
execution

7 Narrow Angle
Limit The choices of “HAND wheel
position” is accordance with
8 Wide Angle Limit
“HAND wheel position 2nd”.

9 HAND wheel
position 1st
10 HAND wheel
position 2nd
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 Middle point correction of HAND STEERING UNIT
‹ In case of the ship with wide rudder angle control…
‹ “9 HAND wheel position 1st” is set “Disable” to narrow rudder angle and
‹ “10 HAND wheel position 2nd” is set to wide rudder angle.
‹ After above operation, narrow and wide rudder angle are selectable on
“1 HAND wheel position”.
‹ Following table shows the example of 20/70 degrees.
‹ We recommend that “8 Wide Angle Limit” is wide angle +0.8 degrees.

Item (default) Parameter

1 HAND wheel
position
2 Adjustment
execution The optional choices of “HAND
wheel position” is accordance
7 Narrow Angle
Limit The choices of “HAND wheel with “HAND wheel position 1st”.
position” is accordance with By using this function, the middle
8 Wide Angle Limit
“HAND wheel position 2nd”. point correction can be execution.

9 HAND wheel
position 1st
10 HAND wheel
position 2nd
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 Middle point correction of HAND STEERING UNIT
‹ In case of the ship with wide rudder angle control…
‹ The procedure is following.
APCDU’s rudder angle APCDU’s rudder angle APCDU’s rudder angle

0° 10
20

30

S20°
HAND’s HAND’s HAND’s
rudder rudder rudder
angle angle angle
P20°

ZERO adjustment P20゜adjustment S20゜adjustment

APCDU’s rudder angle APCDU’s rudder angle

S70°

HAND’s HAND’s
rudder rudder
angle angle
30

P70°

S70゜adjustment P70゜adjustment
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Thank you for your attention.

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