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Thursday 4 February 2010

Electric Trickery - ECU and Digital Dashboard!

I'm not sure if I've posted a pic of my Megasquirt ECU but here it is in all it's spaghetti wire glory! Luckily, each wire is ;labelled and as you can see I've started attaching some of the connectors for things like the fuel injectors and flywheel position sensor.

Here's something I know you haven't seen, it's my digital dashboard from ETB Instruments.

The dash will display most of the data you need such as oil pressure, water temperature, fuel level, front and rear brake pressure, and obviously speed etc. It does a whole host of cool things, for instance, it comes with a data logger that allows you to record and display on a laptop (either live while driving or downloaded later) all of the sensor readings and settings for the dashboard. It also has an onboard G sensor and a seperate GPS receiver. When you go on track days it will log your position using the GPS as well as recording the latteral G forces along the way. All this data can be view in graphic form and you can even overlay a video (perhaps from a dashboard mounted camera) onto the various graphs and stats. All in all it looks like a mighty cool toy and i'm really looking forward to seeing it fire up! Oh one final thing about the digital dashboard is that it has a series of gear change LED's which start yellow and go through green to red as an indication of revs. The red light revs can be programmed and each yellow and green LED can be assigned it's own rev value.

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