Magnetic Sensor

A Magnetic Sensor detects magnetic fields.

• It is a type of Sensor.

Description / Specifications

Magnetic sensors detect changes and disturbances in a magnetic field like flux, strength and direction.

• More advanced designs can measure rotation, angles, direction, presence and electrical current. Magnetic sensors can measure both the complete magnetic field and the vector components of the field.

History & Background / Dossier

Simple Magnetic Sensors are commonly available from TL-1 onwards: the magnetic compass is an early form of magnetic sensor.

Sophisticated magnetic sensors mounted on gimbals and shielded against electromagnetic interference (such as EM fields produced by power plants or by some electronic systems) are available from TL-4 onwards.

More advanced designs are able to chart magnetic fields in increasingly precise detail.

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• MegaTraveller Referee's Manual, (Game Designers Workshop 1987)
• Traveller The New Era, Fire, Fusion, & Steel (Game Designers Workshop 1994)
• T5 Core Rules, Far Future Enterprises 2013
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master Scout Emeritus Adie Alegoric Stewart of the IISS
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science