General Information; Introduction; Description Of Equipment; Technical Characteristics - Honeywell Bendix/King KN 63 Installation Manual

BENDIX/KING

1.1 INTRODUCTION

This manual contains information relative to the physical, mechanical, and electrical characteris-
tics and installation procedures for the KN 63 DME, KDI 572/574 Master Indicators, and KDI 573
Slave Indicator.

1.2 DESCRIPTION OF EQUIPMENT

The KN 63 is a remote mounted, 200 channel TSO'd DME employing the latest state of the art
solid-state transmitter and large scale integrated circuit (LSI) technology. All tuning is done elec-
tronically; using a single crystal, digital, frequency synthesizer. Range, speed, and time-to-station
are measured digitally, using two LSI's. Another LSI is employed in the digital frequency synthe-
sizer. The KN 63 can be operated with any DC input from 11 to 33 volts. Power consumption is
17 watts maximum with two indicators at any input voltage.
The KN 63 is designed to operate with the panel mounted KDI 572/574 master indicators (re-
quired) and the KDI 573 slave indicator (optional). Both indicators have a gas discharge display
that simultaneously indicates range, speed, and time-to-station. An automatic dimming circuit ad-
justs the brightness of the display to compensate for changes in ambient light level. Both indica-
tors contain an LSI. The KDI 572/574 master indicator accepts channeling data from either of two
external NAV control heads. A rotary switch on the KDI 572 selects N1, hold, or N2 channeling
and also provides a system power switch. The KDI 572/574 will accept shifted BCD, ARINC 2X5,
or slip code tuning. It converts whatever code is received into digital serial data which is sent to
the KN 63. Both indicators receive DME range, speed, and time-to-station as digital serial data
from the KN 63. The KDI 573 slave indicator has no mode switch and merely provides a duplicate
display of the information shown on the KDI 572.

1.3 TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS

SPECIFICATION
TSO Compliance
RTCA DO-160 Environmental
Categories
RTCA DO-160D Environmental Categories
Channels
Electrical
Rev 4, October/2004
SECTION I

General Information

CHARACTERISTIC
(KN 63, KDI 572, KDI 573 & KDI 574) FAA TSO C66a
(KA 60 ANTENNA) FAA TSO C66a & TSO C74c
(KA 61 Antenna) FAA TSO C66c, C74c, C112, C118,
C147
KN 63: /A2D2/A/MN/XXXXXXZAAAA
KDI 572, KDI 573 & KDI 574: /A1D1/A/KPS/
XXXXXXZAAAA
KA 60 Antenna: /D2/A/JY/XXXXXXXXXXX
KA 61: [D2X]ACB[SCMYL,RG]XRFXX-
SXXXXXXX[XXXX][2A]AX
200 channels
a. All solid state transmitter
b. Electronically tuned by single crystal, digital,
frequency synthesizer.
c. Range, speed, and time-to-station measured
digitally, using large scale integrated circuits
d. Gas discharge display
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KN 63
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