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Ports & Harbors Brochure.Pub PORTS, HARBOURS & COASTAL AIDS TO NAVIGATION More than 100 years in the making, Pharos Marine Automac Power, Inc. has set the standard in providing Supplying quality products and services is our mission; our staff engineers research, develop and produce high quality engineered marine navigaonal aids with complete support services in the oil and gas and ports equipment designed specifically for your requirements. PMAPI systems are produced to stringent and harbors industries. Today, PMAPI provides the latest innovave designs, most advanced signaling internaonally recognized standards. Tough in‐house guidelines ensure consistently dependable quality. products and customer focused technical services throughout the world. Our global experience and resources are a proven compeve advantage in the harsh environments related to offshore oil plaorms, ports and harbors, lighthouse authories, bridge and traffic signaling, aviaon obstrucon applicaons, and many other PMAPI's staff of sales and research engineers is the key to maintaining the company's reputaon for industries where navigaonal and personal safety is of primary concern. achieving responsive, innovave soluons to the most demanding applicaons. Backed by a global network of internaonal offices, service centers and representaves, Pharos Marine Automac Power's customers can count on fast, on‐the‐spot support whenever and wherever it is needed. Our field‐proven products are designed so that Primary and Secondary Baery Systems the best and most efficient products will be Pharos Marine AutomaƟc Power, Inc. Explosion Proof Electrical Equipment available for your parcular use. We can Named aer the famous lighthouse that stood on Originang in 1947 as The Lighthouse Company, customize products to meet your precise • Bridge Traffic Control Gates the Isle of Pharos in Alexandria, Egypt, Pharos Inc., API provided aids to navigaon for the first oil requirements. We manufacture: • Bridge Lighng Marine began making aids to navigaon more than rigs of the coast of Texas. By 1966, the company Marine Signal Lighng 100 years ago. The company’s founder, Gustav had expanded to five separate enes throughout • Barge Running Lights Dalen, had a disnguished career, winning a Nobel the world, and in that year merged with Wallace & Lighthouses, Towers and Channel Markers • Aviaon Lighng Prize when he introduced a system of acetylene Tiernan. A subsequent merger of Wallace & • Radar Beacons (Racons) gas lights capable of operang for a year without Tiernan and Pennwalt Company formed the • LitePipe® service. Pharos Marine has provided products for Pennwalt Corporaon, making Automac Power a • Buoys and Buoyant Beacons • Helideck Lighng some of the most famous navigaon projects division of the larger group. In 1989, API merged • AIS for Aids to Navigaon (ATONIS) Fog Detectors around the world, including the first buoys for the with Pharos Marine, making the combined group a Panama Canal. world leader in the field. • Remote Monitoring and Control Systems Engineering Soluons and More... • Helideck Lighng Systems • Sound Signals and Tsunami Alarms Today, Pharos Marine Automac Power, Inc. is a Porolio Company of Toxaway Capital Large‐Scale Solar Power Systems Partners and has strategic locaons in the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore, as well as a worldwide network of agents and distributors. Table of Contents POLYETHYLENE BUOYS APPLICATION PAGE PMP‐3000‐GBM (3m Diameter) Exposed Sites 6 PMP‐2500‐GBM (2.5m Diameter) Semi‐exposed Sites 8 PMP‐2000‐GBM (2m Diameter) Semi‐exposed & Sheltered Sites 10 PMP‐1800‐GBP (1.8m Diameter Sheltered Sites 12 PMP‐1400‐GMB‐1.5 (1.4m Diameter) Sheltered Sites 14 PMP‐1500‐GBP (1.5m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 16 PMP‐1400‐GBM‐0.7 (1.4m Diameter) ‐ Temporary Proximity & River Beaconing 18 PMP‐1250‐GBR (1.25m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 20 PMP‐900‐GBP (0.9m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 22 PMP‐BAL‐430 (0.43m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 24 PMP‐PB‐500 / PMP‐PB‐750 / PMP‐PB‐950 (0.5 to 0.95m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 26 PMP‐PSB‐430 Spar (0.4m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 28 PMP‐PSB‐500 Spar (0.5m Diameter) Proximity & River Beaconing 30 STEEL BUOYS APPLICATION PAGE Arculated Spar Proximity & River Beaconing 32 SB‐2500 / SB‐2900 / SB‐3000 (1.8 to 3m Diameter) Exposed & Semi‐exposed Sites 34 OTHER FLOATING EQUIPMENT APPLICATION PAGE Mooring Buoys (1.4 to 3m Diameter) From 0.8 to 10m3 Float 36 Data Buoys & Loggers (0.9 to 3m Diameter) Data Acquision 38 SELF‐CONTAINED LED LANTERNS APPLICATION PAGE Floang or Fixed Beaconing 40 MEDIUM RANGE LED LANTERNS APPLICATION PAGE FA‐250 LED MR Series (13‐19.5NM) Floang or Fixed Beaconing 43 Complete Solar Lantern Assembly Fixed Beaconing 46 Solar Box Fixed Beaconing 48 Table of Contents LONG RANGE LED LANTERNS APPLICATION PAGE FA‐250 LED LR Series (18‐28NM) Fixed Beaconing 50 SECTOR LIGHTS APPLICATION PAGE FA‐240 LED Entrance & Channel Marker 53 FA‐14 Entrance & Channel Marker 56 LIGHTHOUSE EQUIPMENT APPLICATION PAGE APRB‐252 Medium Range Rotang Beacon 58 APRB‐288 Long Range Rotang Beacon 60 OTHER LIGHTING EQUIPMENT APPLICATION PAGE Entrance & Channel Marker, Litepipe IV LED 63 Leading Light FOG SIGNALS APPLICATION PAGE LIEX‐710/051 (½NM) Fog Signal 65 LIEX‐710/22 (2NM) Fog Signal 67 LIEX‐710/23 (2NM) Fog Signal 69 FD‐330 Visibility Sensor/Fog Detector 71 Poseidon Tsunami Warning System 73 SUPPORT STRUCTURES FOR FIXED BEACONING APPLICATION PAGE GRP Modular Tower Support for Fixed AtoN Beacons 84 Custom‐made Structures Support for Fixed AtoN Beacons 86 H‐560 Top Mark 88 RADIO AID APPLICATION PAGE Phalcon‐2000 Radar Beacon 90 Table of Contents AIS EQUIPMENT APPLICATION PAGE AtonisPro AtoN Transponder 92 iNav AtoN Monitoring Soware 95 AtoN Network & VDL Analysis iNAV Pro 97 Soware WXPro Weather Reporng System 99 SPECIAL PROJECTS PAGE Remote Acvaon for LIEX fog signal 101 PMP‐3000‐GBM BUOY The modular buoy PMP‐3000‐GBM is intended for the Option Matrix beaconing of exposed sites. With an innovative modular 3 Types of Steel design, the PMP‐3000‐GBM is able to match all site 3 Float Volumes 3 Types of Spar conditions and client requirements. Structure 7.5 m3 High Visibility Skirt Keel Features Polyethylene: 2.7m high 3 . 3 different float volumes: 7.5, 10 or 12m3 10 m Aluminum: 3m high Short Ballasted Tail . 4 polyethylene quarter floats, with standard wall 12 m3 Aluminum: 4m high Long Ballasted Tail thickness 12mm (15 and 18mm available upon request), with color stained in the mass, UV‐stabilized and filled with polystyrene foam . High Visibility Polyethylene (HVPE) or Aluminum (ALU) spar . Steel structure type skirt keel, short or long ballasted tail, in painted or galvanized steel www.automaticpower.com Form No.: 030915A GLOBAL LOCATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Pharos Marine Automatic Power, Inc. 10810 W. Little York Rd. PMP‐3000‐GBM‐7.5 PMP‐3000‐GBM‐10 PMP‐3000‐GBM‐12 Suite 130 Float Diameter (m): 333 Houston, Texas 77041-4051 Phone: +1-713-228-5208 Float Volume (m3): 7.5 10 12 Fax: +1-713-228-3717 Float Filling: Polystyrene Foam Polystyrene Foam Polystyrene Foam Email: [email protected] Reserve Buoyancy (m3): 5.2 to 5.9 7.6 to 8.3 9.5 to 10.2 Focal Plane (m): 4.2 to 5.7 4.5 to 66.2 Pharos Marine Automatic Power, Inc. Gulf of Mexico (U.S.) Draught (m): 1.2 to 4.3 1.2 to 4.3 1.2 to 4.3 198 Technology Lane Overall Height (m): 6.4 to 10.2 6.8 to 11.6 8.8 to 11.9 Gray, LA 70359 Ballast (t): 0.52 or 10.52 or 1 0.52 or 1 Phone: +1-985-223-8700 Total Weight (t): 1.6 to 2.3 1.7 to 2.4 1.8 to 2.5 Fax: +1-985-223-8710 [email protected] *Specifications subject to change without notice. Pharos Marine Automatic Power Ltd. UK Regional Sales 14 Castle Mews Hampton TW12 2NP United Kingdom Phone: +44-20-8538 1100 Fax: +44-20-8577 4170 [email protected] Pharos Marine Automatic Power Ltd. UK Regional Operations Lancelot Road Beacon Park Gorleston NR31 7BF United Kingdom Phone: +44-1493 659271 Fax: +44-1493 601882 [email protected] AB Pharos Marine Pte. 35 Tannery Road, #05-05 Tannery Block Ruby Industrial Complex SINGAPORE 347740 Phone: +65-6747-9325 Fax: +65-6746-0478 [email protected] www.automaticpower.com PMP‐2500‐GBM BUOY The modular buoy PMP‐2500‐GBM is intended for the Option Matrix beaconing of semi‐exposed sites. With an innovative modular design, the PMP‐2500‐GBM is able to match various 3 Types of Spar 3 Types of Steel Structure site conditions and client requirements. High Visibility Polyethylene: Skirt Keel 2.7m high Features Aluminum: 3m high Short Ballasted Tail Aluminum: 4m high Long Ballasted Tail . 4 polyethylene quarter floats, with standard wall thickness 10mm (13mm available upon request), with color stained in the mass, UV‐stabilized and filled with polystyrene foam . High Visibility Polyethylene (HVPE) or Aluminum (ALU) spar . Steel structure type skirt keel, short or long ballasted tail, in painted or galvanized steel www.automaticpower.com Form No.: 030915A GLOBAL LOCATIONS SPECIFICATIONS Pharos Marine Automatic Power, Inc. 10810 W. Little York Rd. Float Diameter: 2.5 m Suite 130 Float Volume: 5.25 m3 Houston, Texas 77041-4051 Phone: +1-713-228-5208 Float Filling: Polystyrene Foam Fax: +1-713-228-3717 Reserve Buoyancy: 3.6 to 4 m3 Email: [email protected] Focal Plane: 3.9 to 5.4 m Draught: 1.1 to 2.1 m Pharos Marine Automatic Power, Inc. Gulf of Mexico (U.S.) Overall Height: 6.1 to 8.6 m 198 Technology Lane Ballast: 390 to 520 kg Gray, LA 70359 Total Weight: 1.2 to 1.6 Phone: +1-985-223-8700 Fax: +1-985-223-8710 *Specifications subject to change without notice.
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