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Activating and de-activating thrusters

You can manually toggle thrusters on/oﬀ by pressing and holding the CMD key. A popup

with slide bar will be displayed as long as the key is pressed. The slider moves from hiding to

showing (or opposite) the thruster symbols.

Thruster(s) ON Slider moving Thruster(s) OFF

Thruster presentation

When thrusters are installed, the thruster status icon and the thruster information in the mode

info panel are as shown below.

• Thrusters installed and in use

• Thruster(s) installed, but not conﬁ gured for present work proﬁ le

• Thruster(s) installed, but unavailable (vessel speed is above inhibit

limit)

• Thruster(s) available, but turned OFF

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AP70/AP80 1
Disclaimer 3
Compliance 3
The Wheelmark 3
Copyright 3
Warranty 4
About this manual 4
Contents 5
42 Maintenance 6
44 Menu overview 6
47 System con guration 6
Introduction 7
The screen 8
Operational mode overview 10
Basic operation 11
The menus 12
Dialog boxes 12
Display illumination 12
Taking command 13
Selecting autopilot modes 13
Acknowledging a message 14
Working with thrusters 14
Selecting work pro les 14
Thruster presentation 15
Steering stations 16
Open systems 16
WING STATION 17
AFT STATION 17
MAIN BRIDGE 17
De ning a Master system 18
The operational modes 20
Hand steering 21
AUTO modes 22
The Turn preset feature 23
Using turn preset 24
U-turn pattern steering 25
Navigating mode 25
The NAV mode info panel 26
The waypoint arrival circle 26
Turning in NAV mode 27
The Quick menus 28
Simulator mode 29
W ork pro le setup 30
Auto steering 31
Track steering 32
Drive select 32
Thruster 33
Edit a pro le 34
The alarm system 36
Acknowledging a message 37
The alarm dialogs 37
When no monitor compass 38
Maintenance 44
Software upgrades 45
Backing up your system data 45
File management 45
Menu overview 46
NoDrift and NAV mode 47
Advanced system settings 48
System con guration 49
Auto select 50
Manual source selection 50
Group selection 50
Advanced selection 50
Device list 51
Diagnostics 51
AP80 CONTROL HEADNF80 52
Master systems 53
Installation settings 54
Con guring the drive system 55
Con guring the handshake 56
Handshake settings 56
Drive test/calibration 58
Boat type 58
Boat length 59
Cruising speed 59
Transition speed 59
Thruster inhibit speed 59
Low speed limit 60
Init rudder 60
Turn type and Turn value 61
Track approach angle 61
Autotuning 62
Manual tuning 63
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