sgraber
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| posted on 31/1/05 at 06:50 PM |
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Can a Digital Bike Cluster be used with car engined car?
I know that the BEC guys use these straight off their donor bikes... Simple, cost effective, nice looking.
Could these Bike guage clusters work on a car engine? The digital part specifically.
What drives the digital display on these? Are the sensors input directly to the guage pod? Or through the computer, which feeds the display?
RPM's - Apart from the fact that the RPMs read way too high Is there a way to re-face the guage and re-calibrate the tach to read a max of
10,000rpm?
If anyone has links to how these work and interface to the sensors, I would appreciate it.
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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sgraber
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| posted on 31/1/05 at 08:04 PM |
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Well, I've been wasting my day at work researching this  (boss is away heheh) and apparently the typical Bike digital dash accepts engine
sender inputs just like any typical electric guage.
I based my conclusion by looking at some of the wiring diagrams for R1 bike and such that have been posted on this site.
Now the question is: Do Bike engine senders typically follow the same electrical properties as their car engine bretheren? Or will I have to adapt the
Oil pressure, water temp senders from a bike to my car engine?
Graber
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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chrisf
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| posted on 9/2/05 at 03:33 AM |
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Steve:
Any update on this front? I too am interested in what you come up with.
--Chris
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sgraber
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| posted on 10/2/05 at 03:10 AM |
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Chris, I have abandoned my efforts on this front because I decided to re-face my original gauge cluster.
I still think that it can be made to work, but without knowing the values of all the senders, and the fact that most bike tacho's go
stratospheric... just not worth the effort. 
I've started another thread about my frustration with expensive gauges.
Steve Graber
http://www.grabercars.com/
"Quickness through lightness"
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