Can anyone recommend a chart plotter that ...

[RIN]

you can actually see in an open cockpit when the sun is shining? Trying to see what was on mine on Sunday on the way back from Yarmouth was positively dangerous as I could only read it with my head 12 ins from the screen with resultant bruises on head and chin from windscreen and dashboard as the boat pitched up and down through what the forecast said was a Force 3/4

Colour or Mono - Any recomendations gratefully received. Have MBM ever run a comparison?


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[Talbot]

chart plotter test in this or last months PBO. Star buy was Navman 5500 - and I agree. I have no difficulty using it night or day. At night I can turn the illumination down so that I dont lose my night sight, but can still see the picture. At day, I have never had a problem seeing it, but then I dont have full sunlight falling on the screen cause I sited it so it wouldnt (and I have a wheelhouse) /forums/images/icons/smile.gif You might find that the 5500's bigger brother the <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.boatus-store.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=20002&langId=-1&catalogId=20002&productId=96283>Navman 5600</A> is a better bet if you have the space (I didnt).

If buying from this site, You will need to log-in before you finish the check out, and the log-in asks for a state - I used armed forces europe and it accepted this. It then quoted less than $1000

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[insider]

current Raymarine colour products all great in full direct sunlight as are Navman 5500 and 5600, also Standard plotters look at 755c

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[jimg]

Which one do you have?

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[jfm]

The Raymarine and Furuno daylight viewable LCD screens are very clear even in bright sun - I have used both in the med sun (outside, not in a wheelhouse) and they're very clear. However it is better to mount them so the helmsman is looking nearly straight at the screen, the view gets obscured by glare if you look at the screen beyond say 45degrees

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[tritonofnor]

Use an ice cream tub!

One of our customers here was having trouble seeing his plotter, and came up with the simple idea of cutting the botton out of an ice cream tub, and mounting this around the plotter in the cockpit of his cat - using velcro tape so that it could be removed in low light conditions. Result - a screen not unlike the old style of crt radar viewers that he can see in all light conditions. Try this and spend the cash you save on a new toy!

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[RIN]

It's a shipmate RS5900 (mono) Several years old now I think. Works well has a smallish screen
http://www.marinews.com/electronics/electronics/GPS's/el_simradrs5900.html

but we like the canopy down and even following the rolling road (pictured) is difficult. I think the review is quite old

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