Interesting On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 7:42 PM Bill Coleman <colt...@gmail.com> wrote:
> You just hit on one of my pet peeves .Garmin does seem to have this in a > lot of their instruments, but Raymarine, B&G, and Simrad are in the dark . > Literally. What drives me crazy, is that for a few bucks, they could > incorporate night mode, or light intensity adjustment. One of the worst > aspects, is that when you turn your display down in the evening, and turn > it on the next morning, you can't see a darn thing. It is so avoidable. > > > Bill Coleman > Erie > > On Fri, Oct 30, 2020, 7:30 PM schiller <schil...@bloomingdalecom.net> > wrote: > >> I have always been partial to Garmin chartplotters and Raymarine >> wind/speed/depth. We have them all talking through the Seatalk ng network. >> >> We had an interesting experience with Glenn Gambel's C&C 36 going over to >> Milwaukee for the Queens cup in 2018 with his new Raymarine chartplotter. >> As it got dark no one noticed how high the intensity of the display was >> until we came up on an ore freighter. Glenn was at the helm and as he >> tried to go heads out to locate the freighter he was night blinded by the >> display and became disoriented enough that we made two complete circles in >> front of this freighter. Glenn finally asked for someone else to take the >> helm and I took over and just straightened out the wheel until we regained >> some awareness of where we were. It seemed the display went from >> manageable to blinding almost instantaneously. My Garmin's have always >> gone into night mode at sundown and now I appreciate that. We did finally >> get the intensity down to non-blinding. The freighter shined us with his >> spot just to see if we were having issues. He had to be wondering what the >> hell we were doing. >> >> Neil Schiller >> 1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace" >> Whitehall, Michigan >> WLYC >> >> On 10/30/2020 10:42 AM, David Knecht wrote: >> >> I have had B&G and Raymarine chart plotters and they both have advantages >> and disadvantages, so no clear winner for me. I found the Raymarine a bit >> more intuitive, but you get used to the idiosynchracies of either types as >> you use them. The one thing I have found really important is if you get a >> touchscreen model, make sure it also has backup buttons and knobs for >> control. I have periodically had my touchscreen refuse to respond to touch >> input, but I can use the buttons/knobs to make it work when that happens. >> Some models only work through the touchscreen. Dave >> >> S/V Aries >> 1990 C&C 34+ >> New London, CT >> >> October is the time to show your appreciation with a small contribution >> to this list to help offset the costs. If you want to support the list - >> use PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >> Thanks - Stu > > October is the time to show your appreciation with a small contribution to > this list to help offset the costs. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray Thanks > - Stu -- Joel Delamirande *www.jdroofing.ca <http://www.jdroofing.ca>*
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