Fix for too bright GPS display

Recently, Rod Madsen posted:

My GPSMAP 295 can be dimmed to black! I would like it to be
brighter. I'm surprised you can't dim it to your satisfaction.

Rod

"Jon Woellhaf" wrote in message
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On several flights at night, I found my Garmin GPSMAP 295's display
didn't dim enough to suite me, so I finally decided to try to fix
the problem.

How did you try to dim your 295? Mine dims to black, and coupled with the
"night view", the range of brightness is certainly more than enough.
Unlike Rod, I don't need it to be brighter in daylight!

Neil

Neil Gould asked, "How did you try to dim your 295?" He also said his dims
to black, and doesn't need to be brighter in daylight.

I dim my 295 by momentarily pressing the power button then repeatedly
pressing the down rocker. I never change the contrast setting (except once,
unknowingly, after which I thought my display had failed). I have my
contrast bar set about in the middle of the green bar below it. If I dim the
display to minimum then adjust the contrast to the right, I can get the
display to dim much more but I lose the gray bar below the color bars.

Where do you guys who can dim to black have your contrast set and do you see
the gray bar when you've dimmed the display way down?

Jon

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 21:45:44 GMT, "Jon Woellhaf"
wrote:

Neil Gould asked, "How did you try to dim your 295?" He also said his dims
to black, and doesn't need to be brighter in daylight.

I dim my 295 by momentarily pressing the power button then repeatedly
pressing the down rocker. I never change the contrast setting (except once,
unknowingly, after which I thought my display had failed). I have my
contrast bar set about in the middle of the green bar below it. If I dim the
display to minimum then adjust the contrast to the right, I can get the
display to dim much more but I lose the gray bar below the color bars.

Where do you guys who can dim to black have your contrast set and do you see
the gray bar when you've dimmed the display way down?

Jon - my 295 is the same way. It goes pretty dark - but is still
bright when flying on a pitch black night.

Mine is a very old 295, can't remember exactly when I got it, but it
was 3-4 years ago, so maybe that has something to do with it.

-Nathan