99-02 odo, swapped OEM smd leds with white smd leds, +converting odo to OLED screen
01-06-2017, 08:34 AM
#702
little side track but could you recommend a soldering station? looks like the one you are using is no longer available. http://www.circuitspecialists.com/soldering-stations
01-09-2017, 04:05 AM
#703
Let me jump in here and say no, because it has cutouts for an extra OLED instead of the idiot lights, and the idiot lights instead moved into the dials. Plus the lighting is custom LED circuit boards, which I know because I did the layout with Derek. I doubt these would look near as good with the stock light bulbs...
Unless Derek has made a version that retains the stock idiot lights...
Unless Derek has made a version that retains the stock idiot lights...
01-23-2017, 03:07 AM
#705
02-23-2017, 03:31 PM
#707
Lite version I'm considering offering a lite version of DashComputer to hopefully appeal to more people at a more affordable price. The hardware looks the same and interchanges with the full featured unit, but some functions are not supported.
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
02-23-2017, 07:34 PM
#708
I'm considering offering a lite version of DashComputer to hopefully appeal to more people at a more affordable price. The hardware looks the same and interchanges with the full featured unit, but some functions are not supported.
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
I think the only way you could attract more people is if it was a plug and play without being invasive... but i don't see a possibility of that.
02-27-2017, 04:16 AM
#710
DashComputer Lite I'm considering offering a lite version of DashComputer to hopefully appeal to more people at a more affordable price. The hardware looks the same and interchanges with the full featured unit, but some functions are not supported.
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
the changes would be:
TFT display instead of OLED
no compass support
no CAN bus
no GPS support
no ALDL support
clock can not be buffered by vehicle battery
no speaker
no support for external LED illumination
A lot of those features are not needed by most users, and the price of the unit would drop by $50 or even more.
The question is: would there be interest?
I'm thinking of integrating it into a cluster, no more external box to mount. That saves the pricey enclosure and I'd be aiming more at a $200 price tag.
The wiring would be limited to soldering 8 wires to the Cluster's circuit board.
This way the only thing that would need to be installed outside of the cluster would be the outside temperature sensor and optionally a wire for the steering wheel controls, requiring only two terminals to be added to the existing IP cluster connector.
Does anybody have some info on the 99-02 cluster for me, especially the pinout? Is it different for the different years fro 99-02, and are there differences between Firebird and Camaro?
02-27-2017, 08:09 AM
#713
The differences are aesthetics, not actual electronics. People have swapped bird clusters into Camaros in the past.
I can shove a cluster from a 99+ trans am into my 99 Camaro V6 and it works perfectly, aside from the oil PSI printing being different on the face. Another guy on here just verified this not long ago with his cluster swap.
It was pre-99 that there were electrical differences between years.
I can shove a cluster from a 99+ trans am into my 99 Camaro V6 and it works perfectly, aside from the oil PSI printing being different on the face. Another guy on here just verified this not long ago with his cluster swap.
It was pre-99 that there were electrical differences between years.
02-27-2017, 08:29 AM
#714
DashComputer Lite That's great news!
According to what I found, this is the relevant pinout of the 99-02 clusters:
A3: Ignition 12V
A10: Battery (constant power)
B8: VSS
B9: Illumination (lamp) power
B11: Ground
Is that correct? I assume B8 is the 4000ppm signal from the PCM?
According to what I found, this is the relevant pinout of the 99-02 clusters:
A3: Ignition 12V
A10: Battery (constant power)
B8: VSS
B9: Illumination (lamp) power
B11: Ground
Is that correct? I assume B8 is the 4000ppm signal from the PCM?
02-28-2017, 02:46 AM
#716
03-01-2017, 03:04 AM
#719
03-01-2017, 03:05 AM
#720