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Originally Posted by shoiga
This meter is strange
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That’s meant to resemble the actual gyro dial that showed increments of 10. What makes it look odd is those sliding bars on the left-hand side of the dial that reveal the red background. The purpose of that was to tell the operator whether any part of the spread would fall outside of the permissible gyro angle limits of the torpedoes, which for most of the war was 90° left or right. The real device had a line along the 270/90 axis of the dial, and if any part of that line fell in the red area, some of the spread would fall outside of the limits.
That part of the dial is not functional here, so you just use the dial to read off the tens place for gyro angle, with the other dial allowing you the ones place.