Underwater locator beacon
- Underwater locator beacon
The Underwater Locator Beacon is a device fitted to aviation flight recorders such as the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. ULBs are also sometimes required to be attached directly to an aircraft fuselage. When triggered by water immersion the ULB emits an ultrasonic pulse of 37.5 kHz at an interval of once per second. This signal can be heard and located by a variety of receivers. The beacon will operate for 30 days to a depth of 20000 feet (6 km).
The unit shown attached to a bracket on a CVR is 4 inches (10.16 cm) long. When submerged it is activated by water bridging between the contact in the center of the white nylon insulator and the outside case. Variations on this design can also be used to track or recover underwater robotic equipment.
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