Energy Monitor Burning in !!!???

[patandrich]

I have a 2010 Gen III PRius, i was wondering if anyone had the same problem as i do when it comes to the energy monitor...
I have had the car for about 2 months, it has 7000 miles on it (bought it with 12!).. I have started to notice the whole car energy screen has been burnt in. WHen i go to the graphs, i can see the windows and other parts of the car... Is anyone else having this problem??

[LulzChicken]

Yep, I know exactly what your taking about. I normally keep my screen on the HSI - and in the other windows likes the 5 minute/1 minute consumption I can sometimes see the "eco" light still "on" the window if you see what I mean.. I guess we should switch every now and then to keep the burning in from occurring but, this is still really a pitty.

[patandrich]

Originally Posted by LulzChicken

Yep, I know exactly what your taking about. I normally keep my screen on the HSI - and in the other windows likes the 5 minute/1 minute consumption I can sometimes see the "eco" light still "on" the window if you see what I mean.. I guess we should switch every now and then to keep the burning in from occurring but, this is still really a pitty.

Well the only thing is I keep my car on eco-mode, the go-no-go graph comes up, but i have a little habbit of looking at the car, do you think i should complain to the dealer.. I have a feeling i will get no where... like usual with dealers!

[CivicQc]

Originally Posted by patandrich

I have a 2010 Gen III PRius, i was wondering if anyone had the same problem as i do when it comes to the energy monitor...
I have had the car for about 2 months, it has 7000 miles on it (bought it with 12!).. I have started to notice the whole car energy screen has been burnt in. WHen i go to the graphs, i can see the windows and other parts of the car... Is anyone else having this problem??

patandrich, see the other thread on the subject: Anyone else notice any screen burn?

HTMLSpinnr has noticed that the effect "seems to subside after 20-30 minutes". Do you observe the same?

[patandrich]

Originally Posted by CivicQc

patandrich, see the other thread on the subject: Anyone else notice any screen burn?

HTMLSpinnr has noticed that the effect "seems to subside after 20-30 minutes". Do you observe the same?

As far as the efects going away, that does not happen in mine, i even see the "car" when i start the prius and "welcome to prius" comes up, at first they did subside, but know they are officialy burnt!

[CivicQc]

Originally Posted by patandrich

As far as the efects going away, that does not happen in mine, i even see the "car" when i start the prius and "welcome to prius" comes up, at first they did subside, but know they are officialy burnt!

Ok - thanks for adding this. If we can find another member who has noticed it, I'll add it to the list of reported problems.

[LulzChicken]

Originally Posted by patandrich

Well the only thing is I keep my car on eco-mode, the go-no-go graph comes up, but i have a little habbit of looking at the car, do you think i should complain to the dealer.. I have a feeling i will get no where... like usual with dealers!

I'm really not sure - as mine is not as bad as your seems to be. I would go drive to the dealer - what do you have to lose? I understand your frustration with no success from working out issues with dealers but, this isn't just a little issue - the screen is an important part of the car - you'll spend a great amount of time looking at it! It should work right and not be burnt with another image. Let me know how it goes - good luck!

[LeadingEdgeBoomer]

Hmmmm, this is not old CRT technology when burn-in was a real deal--that's why screen savers were invented, to move stuff around when the screen was idle. They are completely irrelevant now. I wonder if this phenom is possible in current Prius dash display technology. I am speaking from ignorance here (always the best way to proceed ;->), since I don't even have my P yet. Is there something about the plastic cover that could be involved?

Assuming it is real...then I would have designed the whole arrangement of displays with a few essential static elements (mph, etc) in the same place on every display; burn-in would not matter. I'd also provide a simple screen that displays little else.

When I'm blasting through northern NM on I-25, it is too mind-numbing to watch an instantaneous MPG monitor. Neither are there enough antelope at play to be entertaining, nor are there even radio broadcasts that are reliable. Bring your iPod or some CDs. I hope to hear more whether others have observed this burn-in phenom.

[Tideland Prius]

Mine has an ECO burn-in (given that I use HSI most of the time, that seems reasonable) but I was surprised that it was only visible in the consumption screen. The ECO burn-in wasn't visible in the SETTINGS screen (where it's mostly black).

[ceric]

LCD has so called "persistence" issue. It is not perminant. You can remove it by displaying all white image for a long time. However, this is difficult to perform on a MFD of Prius (easier for a computer's monitor). However, eventually the persistence will go away (unlike the plasma or CRT).
High-end TFT LCD has a anti-burnin thin film built-in. I guess the one on Prius MFD isn't one of them.