On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 06:17:06 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:25:21 +0700, Bruce
wrote:

On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:43:37 -0400, hank wrote:

On 3/18/2010 12:50 PM, Steve Lusardi wrote:
As Salty just commented, the PC type LCD screen is not suitable for
cockpit use. Not only for daytime viewing, but night viewing as well.
Marine screens will preserve your night vision because black is truly
black. It is easy to test this by turning on an LCD screen of your
choice, do not display anything. Then turn off all sources of light. You
will be amazed at how much glow there is.
Steve

"Gem" wrote in message
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Hi from bonny Scotland

Anyone looked at connecting up a 12v lcd screen or equivalent to their
laptop /pc? I was looking at a chart plotter but the cost of one with
the functionality and screen size I want is pretty large and since I
already have a laptop with expensive digital charts and ais etc., etc.
on it and "only" require a repeat of functions to the cockpit. This is
mainly to avoid having to clamber below and back at critical piloting
points. The laptop is not marinised.

Looking at approx 12 inch screen eg:
http://www.vartechsystems.com/produc...s/VT121XAF.asp

Any ideas / alternative notions?

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To email; just extract the urine.

You folks may be surprised with an Acer Netbook Aspire one D250 -- 10"
screen, with a very bright LCD screen. Runs XP/WIN7. Cost about $200.
Very viewable outdoors -- try it!


I did, in fact I had one on, in the cockpit, the last trip I took.
Yes, you could see it..... as long as you shaded the screen with
something, but I'd hardly called it readable unless you shaded the
screen with something you couldn't see it enough to use it for
navigation.
Cheers,

Bruce

How did it fare when green water hit it, and knocked it across the
cockpit?


Well... I usually do my damndest not to have green water in the
cockpit :-) We got knocked down once and my wife's comment was, "stop
doing that!"

But, from just owning the little thing for a while I doubt very much
that it could withstand a heavy dew, never mind the green water. They
are cheap, both in price and manufacture.

This one got to shutting down every once in a while and then the
frequency got shorter and then it died. When I got back I fooled with
it for a while and then took it down to the shop - short in the
keyboard. Easy to fix, just snap in a new one, but my "real" laptops
usually last at least two years. This one was about a year old and I
think I used it twice and one trip was in an airplane.

Cheers,

Bruce