[Elecraft] K3 LED/LCD brightness

[WILLIS COOKE]

Now I see what you are talking about Drew.  I never paid attention to these settings other than LCD Brightness and Back light Brightness. I am not sure what your reason for turning the back light off might be.  If you are operating in sun light I don't think that you can see the back light on the LCD with a setting at 2 and the current drain is small enough that I don't detect it on my power supply ammeter.  I have never tried to operate my K3 outdoors and I am simulating it by aiming my 75 watt desk lamp at the LCD, but that looks OK to me.  Is that a possible work around for your?
 
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ


--- On Wed, 7/15/09, drewko <drewko1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: drewko <drewko1 at verizon.net>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 LED/LCD brightness
> To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 10:21 AM
> Cookie,
> 
> The LEDs are the ones on the Shift, Width, etc. knobs; they
> become
> extremely bright when "LCD Brt" (display backlight) is set
> to "dAY"
> (or off), and there is no way to adjust them because "LED
> Brt" is no
> longer functional (it just beeps when you spin the vfo).
> Only when
> "LCD Brt" is set at some value 1 to 8 can "LED Brt" be
> adjusted. 
> 
> I checked the above text about five times for proper use of
> LED vs
> LCD... it can get a little confusing, hahah
> 
> Anyhow, I'd like to use the LCD "day" setting and also be
> able to
> adjust the LED brightness down.
> 
> 73,
> Drew
> AF2Z
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:58:49 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
> 
> >
> >It appears to me that the LCDs have only one
> brightness, none!  Only the back light has
> brightness.  When set to DAY the back light is off and
> the contrast is just from the reflection on the back plane
> versus opaque for the activated elements.  I didn't
> know there was a Day setting until your post even after a
> few thousand contacts over the past year.
> >
> >Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
> >K5EWJ
> >
> >
> 
> ______________________________________________________________
> Elecraft mailing list
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
> Post: mailto:Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> 
> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
>