Opel astra F -95 CarPc

ekip · 02-24-2005, 03:53 AM

Hello all thiss is my system, it's not realy finnished yet but it's working. Winter came and i cannot continue it on cold parkinlot. But here's the specs

Laptop Acer 266MHz Running Win98Se

Screen 10,4" installed in dashboard
4-port usb hub
Haicom usb GPS mouse
Jenssen usb Wlan stick
Headunit Panasonic "some old" with aux in
amplifier Sinuslive 3505 4*75W and 1*150
Speakers OEM Opel astras speakers + jenssen 15" subwoofer
MP3's are played from winamp. And mapping software is Genimaps Finlands routemap. Better program is under looking.

Pictures are found in here http://www.javapeli.net/opel/

I try to put new pictures also in net so you can all see how everything is installed.

Edit:
added some units to specs and correct some typos.

Scouse Monkey · 02-24-2005, 05:29 AM

cool, good luck with it. can't wait to see your finished 10.4" screen installed.

Enforcer · 02-24-2005, 07:28 AM

Questions and observations

1. What did you fill your tyre well with, candle wax?

2. Nice to see a PC without the case cover on

3. That bottle of laso.... is just about to pour all over that amp

be nice to see pics when done

RedGTiVR6 · 02-24-2005, 09:19 AM

absolutely! post up those pics of it once it's done! looks great so far! love the inprogress pics!

btw what kind of sub and how old is it?!

heheh

ekip · 02-24-2005, 12:30 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Enforcer

Questions and observations

1. What did you fill your tyre well with, candle wax?
2. Nice to see a PC without the case cover on

3. That bottle of laso.... is just about to pour all over that amp

be nice to see pics when done

1. Underneath of that MDF it's empty. There is somekind of metal system where the sparetire was locked, so i used it to lift mdf uper.

2. When the cover is open its running with less temps and less noise.

3. Lucky me that botle was empty.

I have some problem with my cars turn signals and i have to take my headunit off, so i didn't get new pictures today. i'll try to get some pictures at weekend.

Enforcer · 02-24-2005, 01:19 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by ekip

1. Underneath of that MDF it's empty. There is somekind of metal system where the sparetire was locked, so i used it to lift mdf uper.
.

Guessed that, but in the picture it just looks like a block of candle wax

Quote: Originally Posted by ekip

2. When the cover is open its running with less temps and less noise.
.

actually, if the cover is off, it messes up the airflow. the airflow should be such that air comes in one end and out another whilst passing over the CPU/harddrives and videocard. If there are too many cables and they are not tidy this also effects it creating the build up of heat.

Having said that, there is many a time when I operate with the covers off.

ekip · 02-24-2005, 02:22 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Red GTi VR6

btw what kind of sub and how old is it?!
heheh

Sub is Jenssens 15" it's old (7year), cheap, and peace off *****

But it still beats up those new Supermegahyper subfoowers. When it finaly die i buy a Stroker

ps. that same sub has been on Dj work in clubs, stages, and in my car and i payed about 30Euros when it was " new peace of *****" I just needed sub for one gig...

RedGTiVR6 · 02-24-2005, 04:10 PM

heh - strokers.....I was looking into those a few years ago when I was big into the SPL scene....now there are subs out there that absolutely BLOW the stroker out of the water though.....

good to see that it's lasted this long though!

ekip · 02-27-2005, 05:22 AM

I updated some pistures, but i will take more when sun go down.

Same place
http://www.javapeli.net/opel/

ekip · 03-02-2005, 04:00 AM

I buyed new hardware for my carpc. Via Epia motherboard will be the hart of my new carPc. i plan to make this new carpc and install in couple of weeks. So stay tuned. i'll try to get as mutch of pictures as i can. from making the new one.

ekip · 03-02-2005, 02:09 PM

More new hardware. New harddisk (200G) That was smalest that they had.

also i byed a inverter for power. Now i just need to get those things to go my car.

ekip · 03-05-2005, 12:31 PM

New setup is allmoust ready. More pictures added to site
( http://www.javapeli.net/opel/ )

I had some problems with inverter and i allmost get a hart atack when suddenly system go for shutdown and didn't start anymore. i think need better cables to inverter, so it can get more amps. I installed Frodoplayer but i have some resolution issues with that too. But nothing too serius.

Maybe i can tomorrow get some real "in action" pictures from it too.

ekip · 03-08-2005, 12:56 AM

Sunday was a hangover day, so projekt was in offline. But yesterday i did some installing. My inverter just explouded yesterday, so i get it change and i did get some smaller psu, but it is still too big for me

. But now the system is in its place and it's running verywell. but still looking a smaller psu or some otherkind or some other answer to my problem. To day i'll think that i do some wirings and try to solve some issues with frodoplayer and my gps receiver may need reinstalling.

But now i think that it is 95% ready.

ekip · 03-11-2005, 01:02 AM

Ok finaly i get a smaller power. Now i have hole thing builded to clowbox, and now i also can close it.

There is mutch more to do before i can truly say that hole projekt is ready.

- I need to make those cables disapear from passengers floor

- I need to sand and fill and sand and fill that lcd's cover.
- New cables and relays for inverter
- maybe new soundcard to get 5.1 audio

That's it and then i'm ready. But the spring is coming and that means that motorcycle projekt is also coming, so i realy need to get this done before it.

ekip · 03-15-2005, 12:24 AM

Ok finaly i get some "in action" pictures.

Here's the carputer in clowbox.

Headunit with Aux. That grey litle thing is my monitor tranformer to make vga>composite video.

My 10.4" display, Need todo more filling and sanding, and then some painting, but i cannot do that in winter time.

System running and using the Frodoplayer as Frontend