Furuno 500 Manual De Usuario

2. BASIC OPERATION 

The brilliance and contrast can be adjusted as below: 
 
1.  Momentarily press the [POWER/BRILL] key. The CONTRAST and BRILL 

window appears. 

2.  Rotate the course control knob to adjust display contrast; clockwise to raise 

the contrast and counter-clockwise to lower it. (16 levels are available.) 

The contrast can also be adjusted by pressing the [POWER/BRILL] key. 

3.  Press the [PORT] or [STBD] key to adjust display brilliance, [PORT] to lower 

the brilliance and [STBD] to raise it. (Eight levels are available.) 

 
To close the CONTRAST and BRILL window, press any key except the 
[POWER/BRILL], [STBD] or [PORT] key. 
 

There are four types of displays: Normal display 1 (page 1), Normal display 2 
(page 2), Data display (page 3) and Graphic display (page 4). 
 
To choose a display mode, press a mode key (AUTO, NAV or STBY). Each time 
a mode key is pressed the display changes in the sequence shown below. 

HDG

(Mode)

(Course)

(Heading)

(Data)

P

S

Heading mode

HDG

(Mode)

(Course)

(Heading)

Heading mode

(Data1)

(Data 2)

P

S

(Data)

(Normal display 1)

HDG

(Graphic)

Heading mode

(Mode)

(Course)

(Graphic display)

HDG

HDG

(Mode)

(Course)

(Heading)

Heading mode

(Data1)

(Data 2)

(Data display)

(Normal display 2)

Analog indicator

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