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From: Rosalie B. (no email)
Date: Sun Nov 06 2005 - 08:13:54 EST
On Sun, 6 Nov 2005 02:04:47 -0800 (PST), you wrote:
We have the Capn software and have no experience with Maxsea.
The difficulty I find with the red screen at night is that you lose
the color on the charts so that you can't tell - or not tell very
well- the variations on land and the depths because they are all red.
It is also harder to read the text. Bob doesn't like it.
I find that the newer Capn has a way to intensify the blue and green,
but I haven't tried that yet, or if I tried it found that it wasn't
satisfactory.
We have an option to dim the daytime settings so that the colors are
normal but the screen is very dim. Unfortunately the task bar and any
information around the edges of the screen are not correspondingly
dimmed. Mostly I just set the screen to dim and auto-hide the task
bar and any menus.
We are rarely out at night inshore and I guess the ability to read the
chart details doesn't matter so much when in the middle of the ocean,
but I do like to be able to see it when I'm doing a coastal overnight.
We also have to dim the instruments - i.e. the tachometer, wind
direction and speed, depth and temperature gauge etc. and the GPS
screen BTW.
>Hy Judy,
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>I have no experience with Maxsea but a lot of other
>software offers a red screen for nights. A red screen
>doesn't bother me at nights.
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>I'm replacing the hungry 12v halogen bulbs put about
>everywhere in my ceiling by "warm white" led's. On
>strategic places I replace them by red leds, operated
>by a separate switch.
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>It seems red light doesn't influence the
>susceptibility of your black and white receptors so
>even when you have read your book with (pure) red
>light (I wouldn't do this tied to a pier near a window
>;-) ) your night vision will remain intact.
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>What make/model waterproof monitor did you purchase?
>Does it support night vision?
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>Regards, Len.
>S/v Present
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grandma Rosalie
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