KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass

© Brooke Clarke 2009

KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass in Nav Data Sys box
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass PCB
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass PCB
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass PCB
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass PCB
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass Flug Gate
KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass Flug Gate

Background

This C100 showed up on eBay advertised as "KVH C100 Fluxgate Compass Engine / Heading Sensor Apps" by seller avitarunlimited.  It contains the KVH C100 Flux Gate magnetic compass with the PCB mounted above the Flux Gate assembly.

The  box is labeled:
Heading Reference Unit
p/n: 1022-0100-0000
s/n: 0294
NDS Navigation Data Systems, Inc.
New Orleans, LA 70123, USA
(no CAGE number, as of 2009 out of business)

Description

It looks like a stock KVH C100 Flux Gate Compass mounted in a non ferrous box that uses a DB-9-male connector for the interface. 
The C100 has three I/O options that can use used depending on how it's wired.
The NDS box has brought out the RS-232 interface and ignored the analog and TTL digital interfaces.

Wiring Table


KVH
NDS DB-9m
Computer DB-9
RS-232 Serial I/O
nc: 4, 6, 9

Pin
Description


P2-4
RxD TTL level RS-232
Yel
5
3
P2-11
TxD TTL level RS-232 Pink
3
2
P2-12
Inverted TxD TTL level RS-232 Tan
8

P2-6
Gnd Blk
7
5
TTL Digital I/O

P2-10
10 kHz Clock out
Blu


P2-9
Data out
Wht


P2-8
Strobe Input (starts meas)
Gry


Analog Outputs

P2-3
Sin
Org


P2-2
Cos
Red


P2-1
Ref
Brn


P2-5
Gnd
Grn


P2-7 Factory Test


DC Power Input

P1-2
"12 Volt" in
Wht
1
Ext P.S.
P1-1
"24 Volt" in
Red
2
Ext P.S.
P1-4
Gnd
Blk






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