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From: Tim on 21 Jul 2010 05:59
My Sharans dash is unli daytime and i fing it almost impossible to see
the dials and inset lcd clock in sunlight. (Design fault gather new
golf same??) I have stuck a strip of LCD lights from ebay under the
clock cowl to shine down which sort of works but not too good for a
newish car.
In addition I have bought so far about 4 small lcd clocks at about 2/3
pounds each from ebay and stuck to them to the top and/or front of the
dash. Problem is that as soon as the heat gets to them they stop
working. Squeezing the casing of same promotes some life but obviously
something distorts when hot.

Anyone know of a better made clock that i can get thats guaranteed to
work??

Galaxy one, factory fitted, works well but in no way can be converted
to the Sharan which has a different dash top and layout.
TIA
From: Duncan Wood on 21 Jul 2010 06:38
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 10:59:00 +0100, Tim <Baileyr450(a)o2.co.uk> wrote:

> My Sharans dash is unli daytime and i fing it almost impossible to see
> the dials and inset lcd clock in sunlight. (Design fault gather new
> golf same??) I have stuck a strip of LCD lights from ebay under the
> clock cowl to shine down which sort of works but not too good for a
> newish car.
> In addition I have bought so far about 4 small lcd clocks at about 2/3
> pounds each from ebay and stuck to them to the top and/or front of the
> dash. Problem is that as soon as the heat gets to them they stop
> working. Squeezing the casing of same promotes some life but obviously
> something distorts when hot.
>
> Anyone know of a better made clock that i can get thats guaranteed to
> work??
>
> Galaxy one, factory fitted, works well but in no way can be converted
> to the Sharan which has a different dash top and layout.
> TIA

The lcditself has a relatively narrow temperature range, a sun visor over
it may curer it.

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Duncan Wood
From: Harry Bloomfield on 24 Jul 2010 15:30
Duncan Wood explained on 21/07/2010 :
> The lcditself has a relatively narrow temperature range, a sun visor over
> it may curer it.

Or an LED display.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk


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