I don't think the engine would care. How about using a PIC chip to process
everything?

Thanks, Tom Hargrave
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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of
Harry Hoffman
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2012 8:09 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Virtualizing gauges on OBDII equipped vanagons

Hi All,

So, after my "upgrade" to the bostig conversion I've been toying around with
replacing all of the analog gauges with a digital counterpart.

I'm wondering if anyone has gone this route? I'm going to leave all of the
analog gauges as I can't find a screen to fit nicely in that part of the
dash.

My plan goes loosely like this:

Get a ODBII bluetooth device reader to gather stats from the engines CPU.

Have a android tablet (or phone) that has bluetooth, and GPS and install the
Android App Torque to read and display the various gauges that I want to
recreate.

Right now I can display (in dial format) RPMs, Speed, Coolant Temp.

Also, in needle graph I can display O2 info, and Fuel rail stats.

Any of the wiser list members have thoughts about this? Too taxing for the
engine? Obviously I will have a fallback of all of the original gauges
should the tablet/phone/bluetooth connector fail.

Cheers,
Harry
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