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rstone4(at)hot.rr.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:23 pm Post subject: Sunlight and your GPS

Members,

      This is for all GPS  navagators who have lost the GPS screen because of excessive sunlight.  I  had the same problem and made a wrap arround shade about 7 inches from the  screen surface out of black cardboard and this solved my problem by putting the  screen back in the dark.  It's a simple fix that works.

  

 Tracy Stone

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craig(at)craigandjean.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: Sunlight and your GPS

I'm using 3 inch wide silicon baffle seal to form a 2.25  inch lip over my panel in place the normal shorter metal lip from the top  forward skin. Provides more shade for all those LCD displays and won't cut me  open in a crash. Question is blue, black or red? 

  

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dredmoody(at)cox.net
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject: Sunlight and your GPS

My forward top skin provides about 2.5" of sunshade over the panel but as you mentioned, I'll have to edge it with a split tubing to avoid the samuri sword effect. 



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---- Craig Payne <craig(at)craigandjean.com> wrote: 

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		   I'm using 3 inch wide silicon baffle seal to form a 2.25 inch lip over my

 panel in place the normal shorter metal lip from the top forward skin.

 Provides more shade for all those LCD displays and won't cut me open in a

 crash. Question is blue, black or red? 

  

 -- Craig

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Jaybannist(at)cs.com
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Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:02 pm Post subject: Sunlight and your GPS

I, too, will have a generous overhang, but I ordered the rubber edging from ZAC that was made for the 801.  Looks good.



Jay in Dallas

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My forward top skin provides about 2.5" of sunshade over the panel but as you mentioned, I'll have to edge it with a split tubing to avoid the samuri sword effect. 



Dred

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Tim Juhl

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Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:30 am Post subject: Re: Sunlight and your GPS

Another consideration is ease of access to the buttons.  In a yoke mount the angle is adjustable, the unit is nice and close (helps older eyes) and you can manipulate the buttons easier.  To me, that seems to suggest a RAM mount might work better than a panel mounted unit.  That said, the RAM mount creates it's own problems as far as where do you mount it?



Tim Juhl

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