MaxGyro® Military Grade Rate Gyro

Watson MaxGyro™ gyroscopes offer exceptional performance in bias over the full temperature range, warmup drift, and signal noise. These gyros are extremely reliable. Standard rate ranges of up to 200° per second are available.

Features:

  • Accurate in severe environments
  • Excellent performance (time, temperature, vibration)
  • Rugged
  • Wide bandwidth
  • Low drift
  • Low noise
  • High reliability
  • One-year warranty

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Description

Watson Industries has been designing and making solid-state gyros since 1980.  This breakthrough gyro is built, using a monolithic three-dimensional tuning fork resonator, to be a VSG replacement and much more. Based on proven technology, this gyro is built with new features including built-in test and enhanced EMI/RFI protection.

The MaxGyro® has best-in-class performance for stability, acceleration insensitivity, low mounting sensitivity and excellent vibration rejection. This is achieved by having a much larger sensing element that is solidly mounted. The larger element allows better relative tolerances for tuning and better signal to noise performance. Solid mounting holds the gyro sensing element in a stable alignment. In contrast, all the competitive MEMS gyros use sensing elements that are supported by thin filaments as springs that are resonant at disturbingly low frequencies. These springs allow the sensing element to shift and resonate under shock and vibration, which affects their performance significantly.

Specifications

Angular Rate

Range: Roll ±100° /sec (Typical) See table below
Resolution: 0.006° /sec
Analog Scale Factor: 100mV/° /sec (Typical) See table below
Scale Factor Accuracy: ±1% Constant temp
Scale Factor Temp Coefficient: ±1% Over temp range
Bias: Room Temperature ±0.6° /sec
Bias: Over Temp Range ±0.3° /sec
Bias: Stability < 20° /hr rms Constant temp – 1hr
Warmup Drift: ±0.2° /sec 30 min
Non-Linearity: < 0.03% Full scale range
Bandwidth: > 70 Hz
Noise: < 0.03° /sec rms 0.1 Hz to 100 Hz

Environmental

Temperature: Operating -40° C to 85° C
Temperature: Storage -55° C to 85° C
Noise Under Vibration:
(0.1 to 100Hz)
< 0.1° /sec/g 12g rms (20 to 2KHz)
Vibration: Survival 12g rms 20 Hz to 2 KHz
Shock: Survival 300g (2ms ½ sine wave) 50g (11ms ½ sine wave)

Electrical

Startup Time: Fully operational < 1 sec
Input Power: Positive 15VDC ±5% 1.0 W
Input Power: Negative -15 VDC ±5% 0.5 W
Analog Output: ±10VDC

Physical

Size: Including
Mounting Flanges
1.68″W x 2.98″L x 1.77″H 4.3 x 7.6 x 4.5 (cm)
Weight: 8.1oz (0.5lb) 230 grams (0.2Kg)
Connection: Wire Bundle
Specifications are subject to change without notice.
This product may be subject to export restrictions. Please consult the factory.

Watson Industries MaxGyro® Models*

Model Range Output Zero Ref (0° /sec) Scale Factor
MAX-122-1A ±50° /sec ±10VDC 0.0VDC 200mV/° /sec
MAX-132-1A ±100° /sec ±10 VDC 0.0 VDC 100mV° /sec
MAX-142-1A ±200° /sec ±10 VDC 0.0 VDC 50mV° /sec
*Custom ranges are available.

Applications

Documents

Title File Type
MaxGyro® Spec Sheet pdf Download
MAX-122-1A Owner’s Manual pdf Download
MAX-132-1A Owner’s Manual pdf Download
MAX-142-1A Owner’s Manual pdf Download