The standard Alkaline battery pack provides a month of listening life with a full charge operating for 6 hours per day at once per 5 seconds.
The ME8000 is particularly suitable for underwater tracking and location applications where size and weight are important factors. Examples of such use are Remote Vehicle and Towfish tracking and Wellhead or other target marking. There are currently four standard ME8000 models for 1000m and 2000m depth rating with either omni-directional or directional transducers. Typically the omni-directional units are more suited to shallow water applications whilst the directional units are more suited to operations in deeper water.
Custom re-packaged units are available to order to suit individual requirements for minimal additional cost. The battery pack size, transmit power and channel frequencies may also be tailored to suit a specific application, contact Marine Electronics for further details.
Features Include
- External switches select HPR300, HPR400, or ORE Trackpoint channel
- External On/Off switch
- Responder trigger, power supply and charger connector are Simrad responder compatible
- Operating depth to 3000m
- Directional or omni-directional transducer
- Automatic switching to self-powered transponder mode if ROV power/trigger fails
- Externally powered for continuous operation
- Field changeable transducer
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