At your local office supply store they sell anti-glare screens for computers. These are relatively inexpensive and could be cut down to fit your GPS.
Mark Jones (N886MJ) Wales, WI USA E-mail me at [email protected] Visit my NEW KR-2S CorvAIRCRAFT web site at www.flykr2s.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Kraut" <[email protected]> To: "KRnet" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:28 PM Subject: RE: KR> anti-glare stuff for GPS > Looks like another gem gleaned off the KRNet. I have been looking for film > for LCDs for a while just to keep them from getting scratched up. I have > been wanting to do my GPS, XM radio, cell phone, MP3 player, my son's > Gameboy, and some other items. The anti-glare is an added bonus. I assume > this stuff has some kind of peel off backing and sticks on the LCD? Does it > remove easily to change it when it gets scratched up? > > Brian Kraut > Engineering Alternatives, Inc. > www.engalt.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On > Behalf Of Mark Langford > Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 8:21 PM > To: Corvair engines for homebuilt aircraft; KRnet > Subject: KR> anti-glare stuff for GPS > > > NetHeads, > > I recently bought a Lowrance Airmap 1000. It's a great unit, but I was > disappointed in the visibility of screen in my open cockpit KR2S under full > sunlight (it's great when it's cloudy). The screen is the usual LCD black > on silver background, but the plastic that covers the display is polished to > a high gloss (which makes no sense to me), causing reflections of everything > inside the cockpit to make it very difficult to see past this "mirror". I > started looking for anti-glare stuff, and finally found the stuff below. > They make "custom fit" anti-glare plastic sheets for various PDAs, iPods, > and a few GPSs, but I had to order this expensive sheet and cut it down to > get one big enough for the Airmap 1000's screen. So if you have a similar > problem, this stuff works! This large sheet is not on their website, so you > have to call to order it. Make sure you say "anti-glare", because they have > two versions of it. > > > >ClearTouch Anti-Glare 9 x 12 ClearTouch Sheet is $35.00 +$7.50 s&h. > > > BoxWave Corporation > > > http://www.boxwave.com > >> 425-828-6641, between 11 am and 5 pm PST. > > I flew with it today and it really solved the problem! I don't understand > why Lowrance wouldn't just sell it with a dull screen to start with. No > idea why anybody would want a glossy screen when it creates that kind of > glare problem. > > The other thing that I miss about my Garmin is the icons that represent > airports. On the Garmin each airport is displayed with an icon that > clearly shows it's runway orientation, an imitation of the way airports are > displayed on a sectional. On the Airmap, all the runways look like they > run north and south. Maybe they can be talked into improving that, because > that comes in handy on windy days when you need to stop for fuel and don't > want to search through a bunch of "nearby" airports to find one that's > oriented into the wind... > > Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama > see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford > email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html > > > > _______________________________________ > Search the KRnet Archives at http://www.maddyhome.com/krsrch/index.jsp > to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to [email protected] > please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html >
