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KiwiRS4T
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Motec is a great ECU but for rich people. It seems you get charged an arm and a leg to use any of the extra features.

Lithium
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Haven't done too much on it lately - I have been so busy it's not funny with other projects which are both more much more epic and urgent, but it's not off the radar... just got a lot on my plate and

Lithium
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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Sorry, ignore me

Lithium Grand Master

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Do they have any external read out capability? ie like the power fc?

I havent been able to get a price on these yet, but what are they roughly worth?

Check out the Racepak Digital Race Dash, I know a few people using those - they plug in via CAN Bus. I am helping a mate build a digital dash for his race car which uses a G4 Link (uses exactly the same comms method as ViPEC) at the moment as well, at this stage it seems like it'd be MUCH cheaper just to make something yourself and it could arguably look nicer as you can customise it for exactly what you want, though we'll see how that plays out in practice. We'll probably just use the serial datastream functionality of the Link/ViPEC as CBF working out CAN atm though will probably have to nut that out at some point.

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Check out the Racepak Digital Race Dash, I know a few people using those - they plug in via CAN Bus. I am helping a mate build a digital dash for his race car which uses a G4 Link (uses exactly the same comms method as ViPEC) at the moment as well, at this stage it seems like it'd be MUCH cheaper just to make something yourself and it could arguably look nicer as you can customise it for exactly what you want, though we'll see how that plays out in practice. We'll probably just use the serial datastream functionality of the Link/ViPEC as CBF working out CAN atm though will probably have to nut that out at some point.

any pics of what you have done so far mate?

Sounds like something id be into!

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Early days at the moment, we've just been playing around with the bits of technology we'll need to put together to make it work to make sure they'll cut the mustard- and generally working out what we'll need to display and how it's all going to tie together.

Here's a small screen I'm using for prototyping things/testing - just uploaded a random clip I happened to have in my phone:

Lithium Grand Master

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Lol! we'll see how it goes :) It's not really something which is being done with the intent of selling so much as being a mixture between scrooges (not wanting to pay someone else to do something we can probably do as well or better that a lot of other options - same reason for doing DIY tuning etc ;) ) and having new things to play with.

It's not going to end up in a nice packed product so much as something you wire in and hack up to fit lol

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That does look good. I would be interested as well lol. How are you transmitting data between the Link and screen?

Would be pretty sweet to make up a dash that utilizes this and some of the stock instruments

Yeah that's essentially what I think my mate is intending on doing, keeping some stock or traditional mechanical gauges and have this for some of the more specialist stuff and possibly warnings etc.

At this stage playing with an Arduino Mega with a RS232 -> TTL converter circuit bridging between the Arduino and the Link, and I am using an LED screen which has a certain amount of processing power of it's own so I can give it a bit of code, too - so it will worry purely about updating the graphs to suit values I pass it via the Arduino, and it "speaks" TTL so I am passing the values of interest to it directly via TTL from the Arduino. The Arduino worries about talking with the Link and getting all the relevant data and any other data processing (mainly handling any odd situations, smoothing data etc) so again the LCD screen just shows stuff it's told to display.

Idea is to set up a system which maintains a good frame rate and smooth transitions so it looks analog, I get sick of seeing digital dash setups which are sickening to watch due to slow frame rates and unprocessed data, so it'd be nice to have it look more like what you'd see in Forza :D

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Id love a decent size screen with just revs and speed.

Like a apexi rsm but bigger n clearer

You could get one of these (list is over $1k but I paid $700 for mine):

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-parts-accessories/performance/electronics/auction-723458723.htm

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Yeah that's essentially what I think my mate is intending on doing, keeping some stock or traditional mechanical gauges and have this for some of the more specialist stuff and possibly warnings etc.

At this stage playing with an Arduino Mega with a RS232 -> TTL converter circuit bridging between the Arduino and the Link, and I am using an LED screen which has a certain amount of processing power of it's own so I can give it a bit of code, too - so it will worry purely about updating the graphs to suit values I pass it via the Arduino, and it "speaks" TTL so I am passing the values of interest to it directly via TTL from the Arduino. The Arduino worries about talking with the Link and getting all the relevant data and any other data processing (mainly handling any odd situations, smoothing data etc) so again the LCD screen just shows stuff it's told to display.

Idea is to set up a system which maintains a good frame rate and smooth transitions so it looks analog, I get sick of seeing digital dash setups which are sickening to watch due to slow frame rates and unprocessed data, so it'd be nice to have it look more like what you'd see in Forza :D

how did you go with this mate?

Still hunting for a decent price vipec plug n play

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Haven't done too much on it lately - I have been so busy it's not funny with other projects which are both more much more epic and urgent, but it's not off the radar... just got a lot on my plate and I want a bit of all of it haha.

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