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Offline matinzk

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Boost Gauge Project
« on: 20 April 2009, 10:23 »
I'm an old member on uk-mkivs website.

I started a project which I thought some people with turbo cars on this forum might be interested at.

I decided to design my own custom made boost gauge and even connect it to my car pc and have live dials. However at the same time I wanna design a LED based boost gauge kit with OEM looks just like this:



Here is the working results on LCD (Blue LCD matched the blue dials of Golfs. Top line on the LCD shows the pressure in Pa (Pascal) and second line is PSI (figures in that picture are not accurate).



I will post some pictures + video of the LED working version of it. And also will be installing it in the car at the weekend most probably.

I know this might have been done, but I thought I'd give it a go. Everything has been designed by myself from scratch.

If anyone is interested please let me know. And all the ideas are welcome.

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Matin.

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #1 on: 20 April 2009, 21:26 »
cool :smiley: would like to see the finished article  :cool:

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #2 on: 20 April 2009, 21:36 »
Thank you. Will post pics when all done!

Also as I have a Car Computer, I have designed the circuit in a way that sends the data to the computer in the car and the boost gauge graphical interface also changes accroding to the pressure.

For now it looks like this till I get the graphics sorted.



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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #3 on: 01 May 2009, 10:59 »
A little update on this project.

I can confirm that the circuit is complete and ready to go. I've tried it with a pump also so the LEDs turn on as you pump.



Also the blue LEDs arrived yesterday, they're very close to VW cluster colours.



I then designed this for my Car Computer, I think it came out really good.



Now I just need to install it in the car :D

What I have in mind of doing also is to fabricate an LCD, just like the one I posted on this threat instead of the clock in the cluster to show the numerical values. I won't be doing this for myself as I already have an in car computer so I can see those graphically.

What everyone thinks?

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #4 on: 01 May 2009, 11:39 »
Liking the design so far, looking forward to seeing it finished.

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #5 on: 01 May 2009, 11:42 »
Thank you.

If the weather permits I will bring the pipe in the car tomorrow and will do the rest indoors then put back in the car. Should be all fine finger's crossed.

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #6 on: 01 May 2009, 11:45 »
Yeah i would like to see it to. do the lights illuminate according to the boost?

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #7 on: 01 May 2009, 11:48 »
Yep they illuminate as the boost goes up.  :grin:

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #8 on: 01 May 2009, 14:18 »
so when do you expect the project to be complete?

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Re: Boost Gauge Project
« Reply #9 on: 01 May 2009, 14:23 »
The project is completed. Need installing in the car, which will happen over the bank holiday weekend. So keep watching this thread for more updates, pictures and videos :D

Is anyone interested in these at all? I am in the process of getting PCBs ordered and printed accroding to my designs and getthe componentes ordered, but need ot know if anyone wants any and if so how many.

Matin.
« Last Edit: 06 May 2009, 08:53 by matinzk »