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Chinese type approval for TSS gyros
China Classification Society’s recent type approval of Teledyne TSS’s Meridian ranges of gyro compasses should lead to improved sales prospects in local offshore survey and shipbuilding markets.
Already holding IMO, Wheelmark and Russian Maritime Register of Shipping approvals and with High Speed Craft certification, Watford UK based TSS claims over 4,000 systems have been sold worldwide since their introduction in 2001. Latest models, featuring mechanical and solid state options, include Meridian Surveyor which is able to provide dynamic heading accuracies of ±0.2° even in extreme sea conditions. Using state of the art digital electronics, it can maintain heading accuracies through turn rates as high as 200° per second and has a mean-time between-failure (MTBF) rating of more than 30,000 hours.
