1998 Honda CRV Headunit-less install

hihidamon · 02-23-2005, 11:36 PM

Please follow this link http://hihidamon.gfoto.com for pics of the below system, plus pics during install. Thanks!

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1st Gen Honda CRV Installed so far:

CarPC in boot
cubid 2699 case, MII12000/512Mb/40GB 2.5", M1-ATX (to be replaced with Carnetix P1280, Panasonic CW8123B Slot-load combo drive, 3Com PCMCIA Wifi card, Home-made amp turn on relay board.

Software
Centrafuse 1.1 (Great frontend! - will upgrade to 1.2 soon),
Map Monkey D3,
phoecontrol (not working 100% yet)
Radiator (having muting issues at the moment)

Audio
Deck-less
Kicker IX450D 5Ch Amp
Boston 6.5" front splits and JL 6" co-axial rear fills
Rockford 12" Punch 2412 sub

Accessories
Taiwanese 7" VGA TS, Holux GM-210 GPS, Radio Xtreme FM, Nokia DKU-2 2-in-1 USB data/charger cable and CARK112 BT carkit

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fallnangel · 02-24-2005, 12:17 AM

nice.what front end is that?

hihidamon · 02-24-2005, 12:39 AM

Centrafuse 1.1. I have made myself a honda skin.
I really look forward to your thoughts, guys.

RedGTiVR6 · 02-24-2005, 09:10 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by hihidamon

Software
Centrafuse 1.1 (Great frontend! - will upgrade to 1.2 soon)

looks good btw!

scothern · 02-24-2005, 11:42 AM

I'm interested in your home made Amp relay board. can you give me some details or a schemtic and how it is hooked up?

Peoples · 02-24-2005, 11:50 AM

how much did you pick up that Taiwanese 7" VGA TS for, and how good is it?

hihidamon · 02-24-2005, 04:20 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by scothern

I'm interested in your home made Amp relay board. can you give me some details or a schemtic and how it is hooked up?

It was just a simple tiny circuit I did on a prototype pcb with which I use the 12V from the Morex HD connector to trigger the Ignition to the Amp.

You can find the schematic here http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/show...53&postcount=9
(top diagram)

I added an extra LED across the 12v output and ground just for status indication.

hihidamon · 02-24-2005, 04:38 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Peoples

how much did you pick up that Taiwanese 7" VGA TS for, and how good is it?

The fact that I live in Australia and it would not be economical to order from USA or Europe from here anyway (also I dont really trust those ebay lilliputs), I took the gamble and got it fairly cheaply from Taiwan direct, actually bought a few together to justify the freight cost. I dont want to go into details on costs here 'publicly' as this could upset a lot of people.

The built quality was superb for the price I paid for I reckon, no dead pixels and worked straight out of box. I have it up and working for more than 2 months now, what can I say, everything just works! TS works great too. However it doesnt auto switch to AV input like the Gain/Xenarc screens do.

I suspect mine has got the exact same panel (Hitachi 400nits brightness) and same TS kit and similar VGA controller as the Linitx screen floating around this forum, at least by the look of the internal.