gps glare
Submitted: Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:18
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zacc
hi all, i have purchased a 7 inch gps and the screen seems to have a lot of glare in the sun light making it unreadble .
now besides putting a shade cover over it is there anything that can be put on the screen like clear contact etc, keeping in mind it is a touch screen .
thanks
Reply By: Shaker - Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:22
Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:22
I am positive that you can buy non-reflective screen protectors!
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Follow Up By: kend88 - Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:31
Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 17:31
As the driver I never look at the screen, just listen to the voice directions. As the passenger, checking ETA, POI's etc., I either remove it from it's cradle, or shield it from the sun.
I reckon trying to read a GPS while driving is a recipe for disaster.
KenD
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Follow Up By: Phil and Sue - Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 19:37
Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 19:37
What one do you have?
Is that voice instructions for off road map tracks and fire
trails as
well a street/city GPS road instructions?
Like you I don't watch
mine. That's the navigators/passengers job. I run Oziexplorer in
mine (an in dash VMS one) and can use anything that can be scanned into the home PC and transferred to the car GPS as a map. But I do not get any voice instructions.
Phil
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Reply By: Member - Rob S (NSW) - Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 18:22
Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 18:22
Also polarizing sun glasses make the screen very hard to see.
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Reply By: Member - Peter R (QLD) - Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 23:34
Wednesday, Dec 02, 2009 at 23:34
I bought a shade from ebay and it works
well.
Use it on my Waeco camera monitor and also Navman S80.
Check out this link
My Navman unit (taken at night sorry about glare)
As I said the shade works
well.
Pedro
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Follow Up By: takenbyaliens (QLD member) - Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:10
Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:10
This is what I get when I click on your link???
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Follow Up By: Member - Peter R (QLD) - Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:42
Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 11:42
Don't know what the problem is but I got the same.
Link I was sending is
http://
shop.ebay.com.au/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38&_nkw=shade+for+navman+s80&_sacat=See-All-Categories
I searched on ebay under "Shade for Navman S80", so you could modify your search to whatever the model you have.
Pedro
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Reply By: Member - Bucky - Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:35
Thursday, Dec 03, 2009 at 05:35
zacc
My old mate Bill, just got out the silastic and stuck a black plastic box onto his dashboard, and put his GPS into that. Really works a treat.
Recons when he sells his Patrol, it will be worthless, as it will out see him, so he will do what he wants to do with it.
Mechanically it's perfect, that's his main priority.
1999 4.2 TD and intercooled with everything on it you can poke a stick at.
Cheers
Bucky
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