I'm pleased to report that the Pro-gauge has arrived in good nick to my house
I have been working on connecting it upto a BMW E36 guagecluster and most of the dials i got working.
Yet.. i'm stuck at the fuelsensor.
On the first 3 jumpersettings i can get the Fuelgauge to jump up to different numbers (60 ltr tank) One time i had it jump to 35 ltr, one time to 60, and once at 45. Nothing would happen if i hit the "test"button, as i have it installed on S1. Untill i would move the slider of the first (0%) testbeam, then it would jump up and be stuck there. Think i even had it slowly run out of fuel as i was fiddling with the speedo-setupscreen.
I've even tried the little Signal adapter, but to no avail... as soon as the fuelguage got stuck, it wouldn't budge for anything. Even found the strangest thing:
If i'd do a cold start: Plug in the usb then plug in the poweradapter, then start up simdash, the dashboard would stay in "startupmode" (with bars on the bottom of the display indicating service or something). No guages would move, UNTIL i hit the RMP test, at say 1070rpm, then drop it back again to 210rpm. Then the dash would "unfreeze" and immediate the tempguage runs up to max, unless i go into the S2 (which is hooked to the Tempguage) and test it on 50%. Funny thing is also, that as soon as i disconnected the simdash, AND the USB, the tempguage would just continue to go up as the engine was revving a bit.
Anyways... as sayd.. i cant get the fuelgauge to work, i've tried it on two near identical clusters, both give me a fail.
I've read someone elses post, i think it was a friend of Jadran, who.. with some ingenuity, got a dutch friend to help him and they did get the fuelguage working properly. The guy sayd to not use the GRD (ground) on the black connector .. but that didn't work... there's gotta be something else. I'm in the Netherlands, so where is that guy?! hahaha
Anyways.. apart from the fuelgauge i recon everything is just fine.
Only other report that i can make is that there's a bit of lag between actual revs in the game and the revs on the actual dashboard, doesn't bother me much, but maybe there's a fix for it somewhere.
think that's it, for now. Hope you can make something of my typingspree.
Oh yah... almost failed to show you my gratitude:
Quite surreal... the ODOmeter was up in the 60 Km's.... and i hadn't moved an inch!
Thanks for your great inventions Christiano!
Regards,
Steiny
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