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GrummanDude
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 Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 11:50 am Post subject: Garmin 430 background lighting |
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I did a long night flight last night and the brightness of the 430s (2 of them) was overwhelming in the darkness. I left one on and restarted the other in the setup mode to see if I could affect the brightness. I could affect it a little, but, really not enough to matter.
The unit needs a manual adjustment for brightness.
The unit needs a better design for replacing the battery in it also. I had the battery replaced in one of them and the entire unit needs to be disassembled and a new battery soldered in place. Really difficult to replace
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| Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 1:37 pm Post subject: Garmin 430 background lighting |
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I forget how I adjusted the brightness initially, but I found it too bright day or night, so I leave a couple of layers of masking tape bits over the electronic eye on the upper left. Not much for looks, but it works. You might not think it would matter at night, but even the random instrument panel light seems to affect the brightness of the 430 screen. If I recall my past experiences correctly there does not seem to be any one unit setting that works suitably for both day and night. Agreed, a dimmer knob would be great.
Bill
[quote]I did a long night flight last night and the brightness of the 430s (2 of them) was overwhelming in the darkness. I left one on and restarted the other in the setup mode to see if I could affect the brightness. I could affect it a little, but, really not enough to matter.
The unit needs a manual adjustment for brightness.
The unit needs a better design for replacing the battery in it also. I had the battery replaced in one of them and the entire unit needs to be disassembled and a new battery soldered in place. Really difficult to replace.
Years ago, I replaced a battery in a Power Mac that looked exactly like the battery in the 430. I think the battery was 5 years old in that one too. The battery was $12 and took 5 minutes to replace.
Garmin needs to hire Steve Jobs.
Question: Is there a simple, straight forward way to dim the 430 screen at night?
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 6:45 am Post subject: Garmin 430 background lighting |
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There is a simple way to dim the GNS-430 no need to go to setup. While unit is on turn to the AUX page. Turn right hand small knob clockwise until last page comes up it’s page 4. Select “Display” and press “ENT”. Page displays with “AUTO” highlighted. Turn small right hand knob and a drop down list displays. Select “MANUAL” and press “ENT”. MANUAL will now display where AUTO displayed and the Level field will be highlighted. Adjust backlighting level down by turning small right hand knob counter-clockwise to dim and clockwise to brighten. In my Tiger the display backlighting
is tied to the stock Grumman dimmer so that when I turn the dimmer up the display on the 430 dims. If you need the know how to do this let me know.
P. J. Kelsey
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Subject: Re: Garmin 430 background lighting
I forget how I adjusted the brightness initially, but I found it too bright day or night, so I leave a couple of layers of masking tape bits over the electronic eye on the upper left. Not much for looks, but it works. You might not think it would matter at night, but even the random instrument panel light seems to affect the brightness of the 430 screen. If I recall my past experiences correctly there does not seem to be any one unit setting that works suitably for both day and night. Agreed, a dimmer knob would be great.
Bill
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I did a long night flight last night and the brightness of the 430s (2 of them) was overwhelming in the darkness. I left one on and restarted the other in the setup mode to see if I could affect the brightness. I could affect it a little, but, really not enough to matter.
The unit needs a manual adjustment for brightness.
The unit needs a better design for replacing the battery in it also. I had the battery replaced in one of them and the entire unit needs to be disassembled and a new battery soldered in place. Really difficult to replace.
Years ago, I replaced a battery in a Power Mac that looked exactly like the battery in the 430. I think the battery was 5 years old in that one too. The battery was $12 and took 5 minutes to replace.
Garmin needs to hire Steve Jobs.
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GrummanDude
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| Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 8:43 pm Post subject: Garmin 430 background lighting |
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I have heard that there is a way to control dimming with the panel lighting. I'll look into that. When I had this wired up 6 years ago, I told them, 'No bells and whistles. Just make it look nice.' Obviously, I don't do a lot of night flying.
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