My custom gauge WIP (shaun_king)

[SwiftyOne]

WOW it looks fantastic !!!

Your not wrong there A WOW!! From me too

[shaun_king]

Getting there you guys. I think I'm on the final straight.

However, today my toggle switches have arrived- Yay! Extremely excited with these switches for some reason. Think I've reached geek level: 'obsessive'.
These two red covered toggle switches will turn the lights on for each revburner dial. Think I need one more to cover the whole electric assembly as a
power on/off switch. Oh well, time to bang em onto Alias Automotive to visually check em out with the whole assembly. Think I'll put them on the back
of the rear cover to sex up the rear view of the cluster a bit. If it looks too mad I can easily tone it down by using a less flashy switch. When I've done
the renderings I'll pop em up to see what you guys think. Still thinking where to put the power switch; maybe somewhere discrete.

[shaun_king]

Managed to bash out a couple of renderings to help visualise the fabulous red covered aircraft/rally style toggle switches that I'm considering using
in the rear covers. I'm currently wondering if they are a bit too much. The other option is to use regular switches that are a fair bit more discrete.
Mmmmm! decisions decisions eh. I created a poll on my simulator site please feel welcome to vote whether you think covers should be used or
not. Click here to go vote: http://hutchinsonsimulators.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/switch-covers-or-not

[SwiftyOne]

Hey!..I have these switches already on my dashboard, they seem to high light the dash (mapped to Engine Start and Ignition )...Just my opinion though, they look to awesome to be putting them out of sight around the back... They scream out "Let me be seen, and used"  I did vote though  

[shaun_king]

Hey!..I have these switches already on my dashboard, they seem to high light the dash (mapped to Engine Start and Ignition )...Just my opinion though, they look to awesome to be putting them out of sight around the back... They scream out "Let me be seen, and used" I did vote though  

I know what you mean. I originally chose them to create some drama, However I know what you mean about the mapping of
critical controls with colour codes. Maybe a set of colour-ways is an option, ? I've completed a black  & metal switch rendering.
Please feel free re-vote on the poll. A toggle switch is there too so you can see it

   

[shaun_king]

Considering making quick wee stand just in case 'silly rabbits' force me to work on a desktop system. Think this one could be an easy one
to make with a CNC machine... mmm! See how things turn out eh.

[shaun_king]

Final case part is back from the machine shop, look okay when assembled. Just the stands to produce now.






Successfully mounted the switches and I’m happy with the placement and the look of the them on the rear of the unit. With near enough all the
electrics mounted all is, waiting for now are some short USB cables to arrive from my eBay shop in Hong Kong. This is for two reasons. Firstly,
the current wires plugs on the Revburners collide with the switches, so elbowed plugs will be on the new cables. The 12v DC power plug elbows
have already arrived as seen in the photo below. Secondly,  I want to reduce the length of the cables so they hold bettering the cluster case.
I also want to reduce the amount of wires that come out of the cluster so I intend to join the 4 new short USB cables from the two Revburners,
the GI-Max Gear indicator and the SPI-D digital speedometer together with the hub in the photo below so only one USB cable adorns from the
cluster. I want to experiment with the DC power cables too to see if I can join the two together so I only have one Power cable coming out of
the case.

[Cristiano]

What about a remote controlled relay to switch backlight ON and OFF?

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/315mhz-wireless-car-key-fob-with-key-chain-battery-included-p-557.html?cPath=19_22

http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/315mhz-codecadaptive-wireless-relay-p-550.html?cPath=19_22

Getting there you guys. I think I'm on the final straight.

However, today my toggle switches have arrived- Yay! Extremely excited with these switches for some reason. Think I've reached geek level: 'obsessive'.
These two red covered toggle switches will turn the lights on for each revburner dial. Think I need one more to cover the whole electric assembly as a
power on/off switch. Oh well, time to bang em onto Alias Automotive to visually check em out with the whole assembly. Think I'll put them on the back
of the rear cover to sex up the rear view of the cluster a bit. If it looks too mad I can easily tone it down by using a less flashy switch. When I've done
the renderings I'll pop em up to see what you guys think. Still thinking where to put the power switch; maybe somewhere discrete.

[mr.w]

any issues with changing the values on the gauges, I noticed that you changed the RPM to 1200 max vs what they were stock?  I have a pair of Civic gauges and would like to add to the RPMs from 9000 to maybe 1200. not sure if going up will cause any issues or is it all in the way you configure it in the software.

[shaun_king]

any issues with changing the values on the gauges, I noticed that you changed the RPM to 1200 max vs what they were stock?  I have a pair of Civic gauges and would like to add to the RPMs from 9000 to maybe 1200. not sure if going up will cause any issues or is it all in the way you configure it in the software.

I had absolutely no problems when changing the values to 12,000 RPM, same with the speed. I plan to make several sets of gauges for different cars. You just need to adjust everything in simdash. It was extremely easy mr.w Once you have set them up I would suggest that youexport a XMP file of the settings so you don't have to calebrate all the settings time and time again if you want to keep changing the RPM values.

The XMP settings for my 12,000rpm & 200mph revburners are here if you want to have a mess around with them: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?wyhgl6s2k6bcvrv

What about a remote controlled relay to switch backlight ON and OFF?
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/315mhz-wireless-car-key-fob-with-key-chain-battery-included-p-557.html?cPath=19_22
http://www.seeedstudio.com/depot/315mhz-codecadaptive-wireless-relay-p-550.html?cPath=19_22

Looks like an awesome idea I think that once I have sorted out the current system I will experiment with this

[shaun_king]

I managed to finally install the LED lighting. As seen in the video below they work relatively well. Over all illumination is good on the
dials and there is no over spill to effect the red LEDs of the GI-Max and SPI-D components. I really like the way that they make the
car feel more realistic when they are pushed up against the screens.


[Click picture to see the video of the dials working]



The covers are desperately needed on these as the LEDs are extremely bright if you look straight into them. Production of those will have to start ASAP.







However, there are some drawbacks to using soft materials, the major one being that light can shine through it because of it's low density. The
picture below show this problem.  One proposal that I may try is to use some blackout tape on the inside of the front cover to block out the
light then paint the tape white to help reflect the light back onto the dials. Gaffer tape of graphical line tape might do the job. Think bit of
experimentation won't hurt.

[shaun_king]

Just me again... I got bored waiting for the china USB cables to arrive so I decided to make a quick flash object to visualise in an interactive fashion. Click the image
below to check it out.



Please wait for this 5MB SWF Object file to load. This SWF Object needs Adobe Flash's plugin to work. Download here to make the
SWF Object work if you are experiencing problems.

[SwiftyOne]

WHA!!! Been away for a couple weeks, and come back to THIS!! ...This is just sooo amazingly Amazing, that it's just Amazing!....WoW!! did I say Amazing? When actually I meant "AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGG"!!!!

I want one, or at least, let me be a beta tester 

[tryxinos]

I look every day in this forum, only to see if you have done something new.

This thing is SO STUNNING! To be honest, I've never seen anything better!!! 

[grum gti]

are theses going into production at any point?

or are you going to sell kits of any kind?

You could make some money off theses things once the final prodcut is finalized, Obviously youd have to weigh up the pricing of parts etc
But if you just sell the case and let people buy the interior bits that would cut the cost down cosiderably i would imagine?

either way, youve made something excellent and cant wait to see more!