I'd like to do that for a wideband A/F gauge. Anyone know how to get one of those control units???

 

That's cool. A lot of work, but cool.


What's really going to be cool is running down the track at night and having to count the LED's to see what boost level he's at since the numbers aren't lit or backlit

Yeah Davis, maybe I should order one and start selling copies of the PICs .... Nah, I think I'm going AVR, just gotta get a new book.

 

Thats dope as hell.

 

i was thinking of doing this to my integra but with my air fuel .. i was gonna intergrate the LED light into the RPM but was kinna scared to F things up lol

 

dammm

 

I swear, some people just have the best ideas in the world and you know you could become rich off of just one of them. It would be better if the numbers were backlit, but im sure that if this guy can do that stuff, then he's prolly already ahead of us on that one. Very cool stuff. People like that make me want to be smarter. TIGHT

 

damn this is the best DIY boost guage ever

 

Someone get in touch with this guy and have him create one for my DC2!!!

 

 

This guy is good, i wonder how hard something like that would be for an integra for instance? i would eb willign to pay for some custom ****

 

now thats some talent...thats some ****

 

I dont remember who it was but it was on this board i know. They took a honda gauge of some kind( dont know what model) and put led lights in the tach to show their rpm's. Im sure if someone could do that then they could come up with the boost gauge for it. Just some food for thought.

 

Does anyone know what kind of circuitry could do that (use changing voltage from a single signal to enable either more or fewer leds)? I'm very interested in attempting something like this myself

 

There is a microchip that will do that for you. Do a search on "DIY air/fuel gauges and you will find several circuit designs. any vairable voltage signal will drive it the trick would be to calibrate it but if you are electrically competent enough to understand the microchip driver schematic you should be able to figure it out.

Having screwed around with several civic and integra gauge clusters I can say with certainty that a gauge like that IS possible. It IS incredibly trick. I may try something like that myself if I ever have the time.

I would love to be able to find that circuit driver black box as well. I am electrically challenged when it comes to figuring **** like that out.

Mike

 

that is cool as hell

 

Yeah those MicroChips can drive up to 10 LEDs, so if you wanted to run 20 LEDs as in the VW example you'd need to drivers. I don't think that it would be that hard to do with a map sensor. I'll have to ask some of my Electrical Engineering buddys if they can mock something up.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ElectronMan &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Yeah those MicroChips can drive up to 10 LEDs, so if you wanted to run 20 LEDs as in the VW example you'd need to drivers. I don't think that it would be that hard to do with a map sensor. I'll have to ask some of my Electrical Engineering buddys if they can mock something up.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah you guys have the right idea. i was messing around with this awhile back but ran out of time to finish it. my plan was a 50-led tach, so i ended up using 5 drivers. this would be the same idea, and you could make it whatever range you want (i.e. 20 leds but for 0-10 psi for more accuracy/resolution). i cant believe they're getting $160 for the "controller". theres a word for that.....RAPE. seriously they have about $10 in parts. oh well, i wont complain about how cool it looks. very professional work on the guage face. maybe if i'm bored sometime i'll look into a cheaper production.

 

Ok, we have some smart people on this board!! Good.. You guys keep talking it means there is hope. By the way just my 2 cents, keep the DC2's in mind and you have one sold already!!

 

personally if i was going to do this, i would not have anything to do with the actual modification of guage faces. that is just too time consuming in my opinion. if anything, i would make the controller available, which would be compatible with any honda.

 

hey check this out. I am gonna make one!!!!!
http://scirocco.dyndns.org/tec....html
or get my Elec Eng roomate to

i just found this one too
http://www.diy-wb.com/


Modified by Burke at 4:26 AM 4/17/2003

 

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