2. BASIC OPERATION

2.3Adjusting Brilliance and Contrast

The brilliance and contrast can be adjusted as below:

1.Momentarily press the [POWER/BRILL] key. The CONTRAST and BRILL window appears.

CONTRAST

10

BRILL

8

PORT

STBD

Contrast, brilliance window

2.Rotate the course control knob to adjust display contrast; clockwise to raise the contrast and counter-clockwise to lower it. (16 levels are available.) The contrast can also be adjusted by pressing the [POWER/BRILL] key.

3.Press the [PORT] or [STBD] key to adjust display brilliance, [PORT] to lower the brilliance and [STBD] to raise it. (Eight levels are available.)

To close the CONTRAST and BRILL window, press any key except the [POWER/BRILL], [STBD] or [PORT] key.

2.4Displays

2.4.1Choosing the display mode

There are four types of displays: Normal display 1 (page 1), Normal display 2 (page 2), Data display (page 3) and Graphic display (page 4).

To choose a display mode, press a mode key (AUTO, NAV or STBY). Each time a mode key is pressed the display changes in the sequence shown below.

(Mode)

 

(Course)

 

(Mode)

 

(Course)

 

 

 

 

HDG

(Heading)

 

HDG

(Heading)

 

 

Heading mode

 

 

Heading mode

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

P

(Data)

S

P

(Data)

S

(Data1)

[1]

 

 

[2]

 

 

(Data 2)

 

 

 

(Normal display 2)

 

 

 

 

Page No.

(Normal display 1)

Analog indicator

 

 

 

 

Heading mode

 

 

Heading mode

(Mode)

HDG

(Mode)

HDG

(Heading)

(Course)

(Course)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Data1)

 

 

(Graphic)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Data 2)

 

 

[4]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[3]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Graphic display)

 

 

 

 

 

(Data display)

Displays

2-3

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Furuno NAVpilot-500 Adjusting Brilliance and Contrast, Displays, Choosing the display mode, Contrast, brilliance window

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