NEW CONTROLLER MEASURES POWER DRAW

Oceanic Systems has launched a dedicated NMEA2000 navigation light controller designed to control and monitor eight, 16 or 24 LED navigation lights.

The main 5971 controller unit controls eight lamps and with the addition of one or two eight channel 5972 expansion units, additional lamps can be controlled.

The controller is designed to control the switching of LED navigation lamps and to monitor each lamp’s power draw, ensuring any lamp or wiring failures are monitored and an alarm is raised if necessary.

The unit also measures the power on hours of each navigation lamp and warns when they have exceeded 50,000 hours so that they can be replaced and stay within the IMO regulations.

The controller complies with DNV classification rules with built in manual overrides for each channel and a local mimic panel which indicates the state of each lighting channel and shows any error conditions occurring.

It uses 12 or 24 volt primary and standby power feeds for the LED navigation lights and shows a power good indicator for both supplies that automatically falls back to the standby supply if the primary display fails.