On Oct 30, 4:41*pm, sisu1a wrote:
Has anyone actually seen one? The screen is said to be good but better
than OUDIE with the terrain shut off?

Just had one of Richard Pfeifer's display units in my hand about 20
minutes ago. Very bright, significantly brighter than the Oudie it was
right next to, but they both had terrain on... screen size is a little
smaller though, but looked on par with the Craggy Ultimate's
brightness in the lighting of the museum we were at. Full sun is
probably a different story, but I was definitely impressed with it.
Not sure of the resolution, but it looks very sharp. Unit is about
3/4" thick and has about a 3/4" border around the screen, but it's
shell constructed entirely of aluminum and feels very solid, and more
heft to it than a PDA. It is definitely not in the same class of
devices as the Oudie and the rest of the PNA gang.

-Paul

At the same event we walked out side with the MiniMap and in slightly
overcast but pretty bright sunlight I thought the display was very
readable with both background terrain on and off. Clearly much better
outside than the Oudie (as expected). This is the display I now want
given that it is the largest I could see cramming into a tight panel
and runs SeeYou. And I liked the ability to drive the miniMap/Vario
combination with a PowerFLARM and have the air-data added to the NMEA
stream by the vario. Folks designing this stuff are thinking (although
with the small niggle I'd still like to see less separate interface
boards/cables). If anybody has one and does not want it I'll give it a
good home. Richard had a meter there, it was not drawing as much as
0.4A but I don't recall the exact number. Maybe he can reply with the
number (with different display brightesses).

Darryl