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GPS 15™
 

 Specifications

 GPS Performance  

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Receiver: 12 parallel channel GPS receiver continuously tracks and uses up to 12 satellites to compute and update your position

Acquisition times:*

  • Reacquisition: Less than 2 seconds
  • Warm: Approximately 15 seconds
  • Cold: Approximately 45 seconds
  • AutoLocate®: 5 minutes
  • SkySearch: 5 minutes
Update rate: 1 to 900 seconds between updates; programmable in 1 second increments

GPS accuracy:

  • Position: < 15 meters, 95% typical**
  • Velocity: 0.1 knot RMS steady state

Dynamics: 999 knots, 6g’s

Map datums: 108 predefined, 1 user

 Interfaces 

Serial interface:

Port 1: CMOS output for direct connection to UART's or processor serial ports (1=Vcc, 0 = GND)

Baud rates: 4800

Serial format:

Port 1: Selectable between NMEA 0183 v3.00 and Garmin® binary format

 Environmental

Temperature:

  • Operating: –30° to 85°C
  • Storage: –40° to 90°C

 Physical  

Size:

  • .940" x 1.690" x 0.309"
  • (23.88 x 42.93 x 7.84 mm)

Weight: 0.35 oz. (10 g)

Connectors: 6-pin LIF for connection by flex, 1 mm pitch

Part number: 010-00240-10

 

 Electrical  

Input voltage: 3.3 Vdc +/- 50 mV ripple

Input current: 85 mA peak, 80 mA nominal

Sensitivity: -165 dbW minimum

* Warm = all data known. Cold = position, time and almanac known. AutoLocate = almanac known, position and time unknown. SkySearch = no data known.

** Subject to accuracy degradation to 100m 2DRMS under the U.S. Department of Defense imposed Selective Availability Program.

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