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Originally Posted by Anvar1061
How should the badge in the upper left corner be signed? "Angle on the bow"(En) or "Vorhält Winkel" (Ge) ?
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This depends on what period of the computer you are trying to go for. When this model, S3, was first introduced in mid 1941, that dial represented the lead angle, or “Vorhaltwinkel”. The computer also lacked the red impact angle lamp on the left side of the computer at this point. Some point in early 1943, the impact angle light was introduced, and that dial was re-purposed even later to show impact angle (“Auftreffwinkel”), I think after LuT was introduced.
When it was lead angle, it went to about 75° on either side. When it was impact angle it looked more like it does above, 180° to each side.
My recommendation would be to keep it as lead angle, since that was the representation of the dial through the majority of the war. Although I do acknowledge that impact angle is more useful.
Angle on bow though it never was, that is the second dial from the left on the bottom.