{"id":3269,"date":"2018-10-04T14:28:47","date_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/?page_id=3269"},"modified":"2018-10-04T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T14:28:47","slug":"fluxgate-compass","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/things\/fluxgate-compass\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluxgate Compass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom is introduced to this new electronic compass in May, 1944, noting it had been installed on all the night fighters. He describes its many features to Elaine.<\/a><\/p>\n

From Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The basic\u00a0fluxgate compass<\/b>\u00a0is a simple\u00a0electromagnetic<\/a>\u00a0device that employs two or more small coils of wire around a core of highly\u00a0permeable<\/a>\u00a0magnetic material, to directly sense the direction of the horizontal component of the\u00a0earth<\/a>‘s\u00a0magnetic field<\/a>. The advantages of this mechanism over a\u00a0magnetic compass<\/a>\u00a0are that the reading is in electronic form and can be digitised and transmitted easily, displayed remotely, and used by an electronic\u00a0autopilot<\/a>\u00a0for\u00a0course correction<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Fluxgate Compass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

To avoid inaccuracies created by the vertical component of the field, the fluxgate array must be kept as flat as possible by mounting it on\u00a0gimbals<\/a>\u00a0or using a\u00a0fluid<\/a>\u00a0suspension system. All the same,\u00a0inertial<\/a> errors are inevitable when the vessel is turning sharply or being tossed about by rough seas. To ensure directional readings that are adequately stable, marine fluxgate compasses always incorporate either fluid or electronic\u00a0damping<\/a>. An alternative is to use a 3-axis fluxgate\u00a0magnetometer<\/a>\u00a0to provide a 3D flux vector, and the magnetic heading is derived from the flux on a plane\u00a0perpendicular<\/a>\u00a0to gravity, thus providing immunity from pitching and rolling.<\/em><\/p>\n

Fluxgate compasses and\u00a0gyrocompasses<\/a>\u00a0complement one another nicely. The fluxgate provides a directional reference that is stable over the long term, apart from changing magnetic disturbances, and the gyrocompass is accurate over the short-term, even against\u00a0acceleration<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0heeling<\/a>\u00a0effects. At high\u00a0latitudes<\/a>, where the Earth’s magnetic field dips downward toward the\u00a0magnetic poles<\/a>, the gyro data can be used to correct for roll-induced heading errors in the fluxgate output. It can also be used to correct for the roll and heel-induced errors that often plague fluxgate compasses installed on steel vessels.<\/em><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom is introduced to this new electronic compass in May, 1944, noting it had been installed on all the night fighters. He describes its many features to Elaine. From Wikipedia: The basic\u00a0fluxgate compass\u00a0is a simple\u00a0electromagnetic\u00a0device that employs two or more small coils of wire around a core of highly\u00a0permeable\u00a0magnetic material, to directly sense the direction … Continue reading Fluxgate Compass<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":57,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3269","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3271,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3269\/revisions\/3271"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brooksidepress.org\/cartmell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}