Hi, I need help identifying this equipment. Supposedly it is somewhat a control board to help with ship navigation by resetting rudder once bearing is achieved. Anyone know the formal technical name for it?
Adaptive Steering?
Itâs just a box of electrical/electronics tricks. It could literally be almost anything. Do you have any nameplate data, better photos of boards, anything at all?
I believe one needs to refer to their own Ship Security Plan when discovering unidentified items that look like this aboard their vessel and FOR THE LOVE OF GODâŚdo not cut that red wire!
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Thanks, I will try to get a better picture from the crew.
No, donât gut the GREEN wire. . .
Freeze the whole thing with liquid nitrogen then tap it with a 20# sledge hammer. That usually ârenders it harmlessâ.
NO! youâve got to cut the green wire! cut the red one and youâll be blown to bits! or maybe they said it was the otherway round? OH SHIT!
sureâŚthatâs the easy way out. Real bomb disposal takes waiting till the last 3 seconds before deciding which wire to cut. Donât you ever go to the movies?
Whatever you do, donât drop below 50mph or it will go off.
Press to arm, release to detonate.
doesnât look like a Rooshin hand grenade to me
Iraqi EOD teams would just set it on fire.
a few things on there look promising for âIDâ purposes but I just canât get the photo to provide much info.
FWIW, the sign on the bulkhead is in English and Chinese. Playing with some image enhancement tool yields this guess:
CAUTION
DO NOT ADJUST SHIPS HEADING
[word] [maybe two words] COMMANDER
So some kind of nav gear seems plausible.
Cheers,
Earl
Itâs called a Rudder Resetometer.
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gawd what a dilemma !, Iâd set it where it isnât moving every 3 seconds, (loosen it up) and ride it out if you can figure that out.