Prawn

Disappointedly the backlight arrived broken even though it had been very well packed by the supplier. The package had been tampered with - obvious slit marks on 2 sides and a yellow sticker with a number and barcode. Could this be customs? So we've bought a new plotter, by luck thanks to the delay of waiting for the parcel, at a sale price. Now all we have to do is adapt a different shaped plotter into the original hole, and link up the new transducer. The joys!

So we've already compromised the Nitrogen water proofing! Interesting to know. And our replacement backlight might not work....and then it'll be just a learning exercise... We've ordered the tube from ccflwarehouse.com They are made in the US and supposedly good quality. Relatively cheap - the biggest cost being the postage but we're keeping that lower by having it posted to a US address and then on posted to us. Also saw a UK site.

Thanks All, sounds like it could be a number of technical things: backlights, drivers, diodes and I've read on the internet, inverters. We've taken it apart and have taken a punt and assumed it's the CCFL backlight so will order one from the US. Surprisingly found one the right size and L shape! Only thing is 3 ?plasticy sheets the size of the screen slipped out from behind the mechanism and we're not sure what order they should be in the re-assemble....Anyone know what those are for/and order? Cheers.

After several months on the hard stand I tried using our Navman 6500 after launching and can barely see the screen it's so dark. I've fiddled around with the settings - straining to see the screen. Either I'm doing something wrong - I hope - or I have to 'Bring Out Another Thousand' to get a new Navman equivalent. Once on, I've pushed the start button twice quickly. This brings up the 'Backlight' set at '15' - using the arrow keys I can't increase it, but if I try decreasing it the screen is totally blacked out. So presumably this is the maximum setting? The 'Night' mode check box i