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04-11-2007, 01:23 PM
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Hard-wired. I do think I need to move the ground.
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04-12-2007, 01:30 AM
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Hey it looks like it turned out pretty good! Glad I was able to inspire you 
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02-11-2008, 09:51 PM
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Looks like I'm going to go with the Logitech diNovo Mini Wirless Keyboard to replace my current keyboard and mouse:
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02-12-2008, 01:00 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by LinuxRacr 
Great Choice. I've had a chance to play with one and it's a totally slick device. has all the features that will really make it thrive in a carputer environment. Personally, I'm going to use one with my media PC, but using it with a carputer was one of the first things that came to mind as a started to play with it.
FWIW, the wall charger that comes with it is 8v, 500ma. I'd imagine there'd be some way to adapt that to work in a car environment, but otherwise, I'm sure you could do up an inverter.
I know a couple people @ Logitech and I'm going to put in a plug for them to make a 12v car charger for it.
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02-12-2008, 11:04 AM
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02-28-2008, 12:52 PM
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good job 
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03-03-2008, 10:38 AM
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Well, I bought a solid state charger to recharge it. Works great again.
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03-21-2008, 10:44 AM
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Hey LinuxRacr,
I have a Mazda MP3 as well and just put a carpc in the glovebox. I was thinking of getting that braille battery after reading your post here. Do you have a picture of the battery installed? I'm trying to visualize how the lower height battery will fit in the engine bay there.
Thanks. That little dinovo looks sweet too.
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03-21-2008, 11:37 AM
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Did you ever get rid of the ground loop issue?
If not, does it change with the engine speed? Try turning things on a nd off to see if the sound changes (ie: fan, etc).
Where are you drawing power from? I think I saw above you were direct to and from the battery?
Where do you have the system grounded to and how?
Cheers
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03-21-2008, 05:53 PM
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When I get back from vacation, I hope to answer all those questions for ya, with pictures.
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03-28-2008, 03:34 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by LinuxRacr
Aquired.
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07-16-2008, 12:38 AM
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You know, it occurred to me tonight, that since I have had a halfway decent sound blaster Audigy 2 Value card for sound out of my car PC for a bout a year now, maybe I should try running 4.1 or 5.1 Surround sound? All it would take are a couple of cable changes to the AMP. The pictures below is how I first set it up (an how it is now), due to the fact that my old Carputer was a laptop on a docking station, with one audio out. Notice that I merge the Front Left, and Rear Left together, and then Front Right and Rear Right together, and then feed them both, via Y-Adapter to a regular RCA Right-Left, down to one line to go to the line out on my soundcard. The last picture is the reference I'm going to use to setup 5.1 Surround Sound for my soundcard:
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07-16-2008, 01:05 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by cbutters Hey LinuxRacr,
I have a Mazda MP3 as well and just put a carpc in the glovebox. I was thinking of getting that braille battery after reading your post here. Do you have a picture of the battery installed? I'm trying to visualize how the lower height battery will fit in the engine bay there.
Thanks. That little dinovo looks sweet too.
Here is a picture:
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07-16-2008, 01:41 PM
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Ok, So I just got rid of the old, krappy unshielded wire, and put in some new, less-krappier shielded wire. I may have just solved my grounding issue....
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07-16-2008, 02:48 PM
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that radio shack stuff is the unshielded im assuming?
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