Delfin
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For some reason, when I set up Delfin's nav station in the pilot house, I elected to install a $2,300 Big Bay monitor. The computer with charts and Coastal Explorer was in the office belowdecks with cabling up to the pilot house. The laptop computer went toes up on me after intermittent displays of the blue screen of death, so I bought a nice little Asus laptop ($499) and installed the latest version of CE and charts on that. Unfortunately, when connected the Big Bay kept displaying a flashing error message of "Change Mode", laid over the chart, which also wouldn't display correctly in any case, no matter what the screen resolution, scaling, refresh rate, etc. was set at. I finally got my backup Lenovo to work, but as soon as I changed a parameter I got the error message again, and changing the display setting back to exactly what it was didn't affect the error message, nor the display issue.
I called Big Bay, who provided zero assistance, other than to suggest I contact Asus and ask them why my expensive Big Bay monitor didn't have a clue. Gee, thanks, Big Bay.
So, I purchased a GeChic 1503H portable monitor that has 1920 x 1080 HD resolution and it is really, really nice. Not cheap, as monitors go, but I had to have one that would fit in the nav console I built and most monitors are too big. And it is about 1/5th the cost of another Big Bay that comes with Big Bay's legendary "we have no idea and couldn't care less" customer service.
The resolution on this is amazing, so I am very happy with it as a replacement, but I have the Big Bay monitor to either throw over the side or donate to a fellow forumite, preferably with an older computer as I think its issue was acceptance of the hdmi output of the new Asus which ran through an hdmi->vga converter. That is a guess, but if you have a 15 pin vga output on your computer, there is no reason this shouldn't work.
So, free to a good home if you would like an expensive, but useless to me 15.5" Big Bay monitor. PM and pay for shipping and it's yours.
I called Big Bay, who provided zero assistance, other than to suggest I contact Asus and ask them why my expensive Big Bay monitor didn't have a clue. Gee, thanks, Big Bay.
So, I purchased a GeChic 1503H portable monitor that has 1920 x 1080 HD resolution and it is really, really nice. Not cheap, as monitors go, but I had to have one that would fit in the nav console I built and most monitors are too big. And it is about 1/5th the cost of another Big Bay that comes with Big Bay's legendary "we have no idea and couldn't care less" customer service.
The resolution on this is amazing, so I am very happy with it as a replacement, but I have the Big Bay monitor to either throw over the side or donate to a fellow forumite, preferably with an older computer as I think its issue was acceptance of the hdmi output of the new Asus which ran through an hdmi->vga converter. That is a guess, but if you have a 15 pin vga output on your computer, there is no reason this shouldn't work.
So, free to a good home if you would like an expensive, but useless to me 15.5" Big Bay monitor. PM and pay for shipping and it's yours.