FWIW, Garmin purchased Nexus a few years ago and sadly is phasing it out. Garmin can be difficult to deal with as I don’t believe Nexus support is a priority. If you find the right person (which requires some effort), Garmin does provide some technical support, such as a great replacement program for damaged wind transducers.
I’m still a fan of my Nexus II instruments for wind/speed/depth/compass and related functions (VMG, true wind, etc.), although they do not do chartplotting. From: Bill Coleman <colt...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2020 7:42 PM To: Stus-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Subject: Stus-List Re: Boat instrument 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 <mailto: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
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