I agree, which is why I love my simple '84 and found another one for a
friend.  However, I do marvel at what people will do with these
vehicles. . . http://www.oz.net/~tyg/Westy.htm

Bulley wrote:
>
> And from the wilderness, came a voice...
>
> I, for one, like my funky old VW gauges, and like looking down at them,
> rather than having them on the windshield. I go camping to get away from
> TV's, VCR's, barcodes, GPS, and this computer (which is my office, and my
> income). I like using a topo, a compass, and shooting an azimuth to
> navigate.
>
> More importantly, I have enough to maintain (READ: "enough that can go
> wrong") on our Westy already without adding after-the-fact TV's, VCR's,
> Cisco Routers, Servers, GPS, tuned-mass hydraulic damping systems, or HUD
> gauges...
>
> But I look forward to seeing them in someone else's van, so have fun.
>
> G. Matthew Bulley
> Director
> Bulley-Hewlett & Associates
> www.bulley-hewlett.com
> Cary, NC USA
> 888.468.4880 tollfree
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   David Filcoff [SMTP:dave@V-DUB.MUSA.COM]
> Sent:   Friday, November 05, 1999 9:49 AM
> To:     vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:        Another option: Computerized Gauge Setup
>
> I do some programing for applications similar to this in National
> Instruments LabWindows CVI (C for virtual instrumentation).  Basically
> it allows you to take data (from a number of different sources),
> manipulate it and represent it graphically in a Windows 9x or NT
> environment.
>
> If you were to take the lines off of the ECU, just like the digifant
> tool, you could get data from a variety of sources.  However I do not
> see a practical way to use a Palm PDA, at least the 3com line because
> the constant updating of the screen would eat the batteries not to
> mention the backlight would have to on to reflect off of the
> windshield.  The other problem is that the Palm's run Palm OS, you can
> write stuff for them, but not with CVI.  The Windows CE PDA's might be
> able to run the programs, but I won't get in to that because they suck.
>
> But one could use a laptop, and with the extra space provided you could
> log the data in a spreadsheet so that you could review the engine
> performance later or even replay the run.  However there is no provision
> for speed with out some way of getting the mechanical speedometer
> reading into a digital signal, like a digital speedometer sender from an
> audi or something.
>
> I put a screen shot of on of the app's I'm currently working on at
> < http://www.251.org/temp/mcd.gif >  It's not the best quality, but
> you'll get the idea, the original is over 1100 pixels wide, this one
> should fit on your screen.
>
> dave

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