poorly lit display solutions?

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I wear polarized lenses and like Cormanus said they make the gauges hard to see.

Edit to add: GO says they don’t. So GO, why do they make mine hard (or harder) to see? Wonder whats up with that?

I think some (or all?) LCD displays have a polarized glass. The polarization works at an specific angle (i.e. it only let's through light aligned with that angle, filtering the other components).

If you wear polarised glasses and the angle matches the one on the screen, you don't have any more filtering (unless it's polarised AND tinted). If the angles are 90deg appart, no light will get through that combination of polarised filters. If the angle -alpha- is anywhere between 0 and 90 deg, the light that get's thorugh will be proportional to cos(alpha).

You can check if this is the problem by rotating the glasses 90 deg and checking if you get more or less light from the display to get through.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDC0QZoURrY