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I was thinking that some of the posters on the bbs were just hard-to-please whiners (sorry, Dredd), but yesterday I happened to be driving in such a fashion that the sun, low on the horizon, was shining directly through the rear window into the display of my Mark II (blue) and even though the sun was bright enough to make visible the grid lines and the backing plate that make up the screen, I could still read the words on the display with no real difficulty--that is, they were washed out but nonetheless legible.
I have to agree with this as well... Living in CA it can become quite sunny as most know, and it has been for the past couple of days. I have not had problems reading the display when it is "washed out", but I do have to say that I think it's more of a person's opinion then anything else. One instance I was driving in the same conditions described above -- I could read the display fine, my passanger couldn't even from the same angle. (blue display)
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Now, this is almost certainly completely irrelevant, but on the off chance that it will spark an idea in someone's head... my display is one of the ones that is mounted too "high" relative to the fascia, with the result that the top left corner is obscured from my normal driving position. Could display panels mounted lower in the unit somehow produce less contrast? Naahhh, not likely, is it?
Installation in my Jeep creates the same situation where the very top left of the first character is cut off. In the manual it says that the unit is designed to be mounted at an 8% angle, however due to the way mine is installed it is at a perfect horizaontal. I would assume that in the ideal situation as described, reading the display would not clip the text at all.
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