Now I see what you are talking about Drew. I never paid attention to these settings other than LCD Brightness and Back light Brightness. I am not sure what your reason for turning the back light off might be. If you are operating in sun light I don't think that you can see the back light on the LCD with a setting at 2 and the current drain is small enough that I don't detect it on my power supply ammeter. I have never tried to operate my K3 outdoors and I am simulating it by aiming my 75 watt desk lamp at the LCD, but that looks OK to me. Is that a possible work around for your? Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, drewko <[email protected]> wrote: > From: drewko <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 LED/LCD brightness > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 10:21 AM > Cookie, > > The LEDs are the ones on the Shift, Width, etc. knobs; they > become > extremely bright when "LCD Brt" (display backlight) is set > to "dAY" > (or off), and there is no way to adjust them because "LED > Brt" is no > longer functional (it just beeps when you spin the vfo). > Only when > "LCD Brt" is set at some value 1 to 8 can "LED Brt" be > adjusted. > > I checked the above text about five times for proper use of > LED vs > LCD... it can get a little confusing, hahah > > Anyhow, I'd like to use the LCD "day" setting and also be > able to > adjust the LED brightness down. > > 73, > Drew > AF2Z > > > > On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:58:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote: > > > > >It appears to me that the LCDs have only one > brightness, none! Only the back light has > brightness. When set to DAY the back light is off and > the contrast is just from the reflection on the back plane > versus opaque for the activated elements. I didn't > know there was a Day setting until your post even after a > few thousand contacts over the past year. > > > >Willis 'Cookie' Cooke > >K5EWJ > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
