douglassmt
Well Known Member
This falls under the category of "minutiae" or "obscure but potentially important."
I have a GTN 650 and opted to use its internal dimmer instead of connecting it manually to the panel dimmer - advice from Aerotronics and/or Stein I believe.
However, when I occasionally fly at night (or into the night) the panel won't dim, leaving me with a bright, night-vision-destroying light in the cockpit. I stopped at Aerotronics last week and Jason changed some settings that I am certain will help, but I thought I would plumb the vast reaches of VAF for that lone soul who might have already trod this path.
If you have a GTN 650 that is set up to use the integral dimmer, and you fly at night, have you found settings that cause it to dim properly between bright sun and low light?
I have had the following problems with different dimmer settings I've tried: it wouldn't dim at all when flying from daytime into night; it would dim so far that it went black; if started in the dark for a before dawn departure it wouldn't turn up the light so it was visible in daylight.
I have a GTN 650 and opted to use its internal dimmer instead of connecting it manually to the panel dimmer - advice from Aerotronics and/or Stein I believe.
However, when I occasionally fly at night (or into the night) the panel won't dim, leaving me with a bright, night-vision-destroying light in the cockpit. I stopped at Aerotronics last week and Jason changed some settings that I am certain will help, but I thought I would plumb the vast reaches of VAF for that lone soul who might have already trod this path.
If you have a GTN 650 that is set up to use the integral dimmer, and you fly at night, have you found settings that cause it to dim properly between bright sun and low light?
I have had the following problems with different dimmer settings I've tried: it wouldn't dim at all when flying from daytime into night; it would dim so far that it went black; if started in the dark for a before dawn departure it wouldn't turn up the light so it was visible in daylight.
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