Specifications

H3000 Pilot Handbook___________________________________________________

HB-3001-02

HALCYON GYRO COMPASS CALIBRATION and SETUP

This section describes the setup and calibration of the Halcyon Gyro

compass connected to the H3000 system via the Halcyon Gyro Processor

unit.

The conditions and preparations for performing an Auto swing are the

same as described in the previous section for the Halcyon 2000 Compass.

Once ready to start the swing select:-

SETUP X CALIBRATION X OTHER CALIBRATION X

MISC X HALCYON X START X (Set value to 1 starts swing) ↵

The display will now show the degrees of turn completed so far. When the

full 360 deg turn has completed within the limits described earlier, the

display should say, “PASS” to indicate a successful swing.

A “FAIL” indication suggest that the turn was not completed within the

guidelines or quite possibly that there is too great a magnetic influence

close to the sensor. This will require investigation before the swing

process is retried.

Now the swing is complete its important to eliminate any constant error in

heading due to the physical alignment of the sensor relative to the fore /

aft line of the boat.

This is normally checked for by using shore-based transits, once the error

is known it can be eliminated by entering the value into the system under:

SETUP X CALIBRATION X HEADING X SET OFFSET

VALUE X (Enter new value) ↵

For example, the compass was reading 320 degrees and it should read

316, then the value to enter would be –4 from the current set value