Took my empeg out in the MGB last week for the first time. Couldn't see a thing. Not just faint, 'washed out', but completely disappeared, even when I cupped my hand over it at traffic lights.

I've got an amber screen - are Darkstorm's clear or smoke plates any better for this?

try it without a screen to see what it would look like with a clear one

Unfortunately mine aren't going to be much better at this than Empeg's original lenses because sun is so damn bright anymore that pretty much everything is going to be completely washed out no matter who makes it or what kinds of lenses we all use on the displays.

Steve

That's a good idea.

Its been mentioned here before, but maybe you missed it; the green offers the best visibility of the OEM lenses.

If that doesnt help, you can always move here to upstate New York. Direct sunlight does not present too much of a problem here. ;-)

-Doug
Mk2-12G Blue (Now A/R Green)

Anewsome is haviong this same problem in his convertable Porche seeing how he lives in CA, USA. He was thinking about building a visor of some sort to shield the display to make it readable and get the IR device to work. YOu might want to shoot him a mail and see what he says.

That definitely depends on the location. Here, Rome, not even a too sunny day makes empeg totally unreadable in certain, not so rare, conditions. And I am not talking of when the sun beams hid directly the display. I'll try with the AR soon, I hope, and with a Red Non AR fascia.

Taym
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If it's dark, nighttime, and you go into the Dimmer menu and turn it all the way down, do the display pixels:

A) Disappear completely even before you get down to zero?

B) Remain so that they are faintly readable even when the dimmer is all the way down to zero?

If the answer is A), then you might have a defective unit. Check out the FAQ entry on this subject.

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Tony Fabris

Actually, I just noticed that the smoke version was doing somewhat better than the non-AR blue today. Dunno how it would handle under "real" sun (being that I'm just in Pennsylvania), and I haven't actually used the empeg-provided AR blue much, but it was quite readable with the sun shining directly on it.

Fly me to the moon...

My dimmer was only 40%. Probably explains why I could hardly read it in the day, even out of the sun. I will find out tomorrow whether 100% brightness has helped. I also had the problem of "where the hell's the dimmer switch?" indoors - didn't think to check that it might magically appear once it was in the car. Thanks guys!

Heh. Let us know how it looks when the dimmer is all the way up. I think you'll probably be satisfied.

Remember that there are three dimmer settings:

1) In the car with your dashboard lights on. Set this by plugging it into the car, turning on the lights, and going into the dimmer menu.

2) In the car with your dashboard lights off. Set this by plugging it into the car, turning off the lights, and going into the dimmer menu.

3) In the house. This is hard-coded to 100 percent and cannot be changed. The dimmer menu is not available when it's plugged in at home.

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Tony Fabris