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11-18-2004, 02:58 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: North Virginia
Posts: 87
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anyone put a lcd in a gauge pod?
i was wondering if anyone ever put a lcd display in a gauge pod?
or mabey even a vacume display
i wanted this as a aux display for my main display ( if its to bright or if i fell turning of the display)
i was hopeing to display obd-ii , mabey track info, other stuff i cant think of.
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11-18-2004, 03:22 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Baltimore
Posts: 165
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I haven't done this yet but I am planning on doing this on a 65 benz I got and I was planning on doing this. Only thing I haven't figured our which might put a wrench in the plan is how to get the speed of the car to be acurate since this was before obd was even thought about. GPS isnt a viable solution since it varies and isnt 100% acurate. I can't take the change of the GPS being wrong saying im doing 55 when im really doing 80. If I cant get a viable solution with PC I am going to use instruments from www.dakotadigital.com
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11-18-2004, 06:15 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: North Virginia
Posts: 87
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you could do a speed sensor the car should have one
at the very least you could wire tie a magnet to the axel and put a sensor to read the pulses
measure out a mile in pulses / time vola
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11-18-2004, 06:26 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,380
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GPS speed indication is very accurate, btw. Far more accurate then the mechanical gauges in most cars. Position, not as accurate. Altitude, far from accurate. But speed, yeah.
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11-18-2004, 07:20 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: May 2003
Location: SE Michigan
Posts: 810
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Quote: Originally Posted by Chairboy
GPS speed indication is very accurate, btw. Far more accurate then the mechanical gauges in most cars. Position, not as accurate. Altitude, far from accurate. But speed, yeah.
Not if you want it to display your speed anywhere close to real time. If you let it average your speed for several seconds, it will be very accurate.
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11-18-2004, 07:59 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: North Virginia
Posts: 87
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thread jack aside
does anyone know a good usb lcd or vcd that fit in a gague pod
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11-18-2004, 08:15 PM
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My Village Called
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 10,517
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Quote: Originally Posted by crash893
thread jack aside
does anyone know a good usb lcd or vcd that fit in a gague pod
Matrix Orbital + LCDC. I'm a LCDC programmer  What GPS ap are you going to be using?
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11-18-2004, 08:26 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: North Virginia
Posts: 87
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none yet
i was going to have it be usb and run it off the computer rahter than directly from a devices
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11-18-2004, 08:36 PM
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My Village Called
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 10,517
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Quote: Originally Posted by crash893
none yet
i was going to have it be usb and run it off the computer rahter than directly from a devices
Yeh, Matrix Orbital LCDCs need a computer, and LCDC is a very good program for that Control over winamp, limited support for WMP, etc
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11-18-2004, 09:36 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: North Virginia
Posts: 87
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what is the diffrences between lcd and the lcdc?
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11-18-2004, 09:52 PM
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My Village Called
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 10,517
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Quote: Originally Posted by crash893
what is the diffrences between lcd and the lcdc?
LCD = the thing that displays stuff. LCDC = software that runs the LCD. LCDC supports Matrix Orbital displays, which are USB
www.lcdc.cc
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11-18-2004, 10:01 PM
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Constant Bitrate
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Baltimore
Posts: 165
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Quote: Originally Posted by crash893
you could do a speed sensor the car should have one
at the very least you could wire tie a magnet to the axel and put a sensor to read the pulses
measure out a mile in pulses / time vola
The speed sensor on the car is a cable tht screws into the back of the cluster then connects to the transmission so that would work. but I will more than likely being going with a more modern engine/tranny combo probably a small block chevy so I am sure I can get something to work with that.
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11-18-2004, 10:10 PM
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My Village Called
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Berkeley, CA
Posts: 10,517
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Quote: Originally Posted by SWC
The speed sensor on the car is a cable tht screws into the back of the cluster then connects to the transmission so that would work. but I will more than likely being going with a more modern engine/tranny combo probably a small block chevy so I am sure I can get something to work with that.
Anyway, if you get a Matrix Orbital LCD and LCDC, I'm pretty sure that I would be able to whip up some plugin that uses Ninja Monkey's D3 frontend and gets its speed and displays that data on the LCD
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