oliwb
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 05:39 PM |
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Digi Dash plugs....
I've mounted my digi dash in the centre of my steering wheel to prevent clutering the dash too much, but now I'm faced with the dilema of
how to wire it in without it tangling everytime you turn the wheel.....anybody got any solutions??? Think its about 8 wires in total and its a Sierra
steering column. Cheers Oli.
If your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room!
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rayward
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 05:43 PM |
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demon thieves do a quick release with a connector in the middles,
Linky thing
not cheap at nearly £300 quid though!!
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RazMan
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 05:43 PM |
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Curly Umbilical cord? Radio transmitter/ receiver?
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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DIY Si
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 08:16 PM |
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Sprimngy umbilical cord is waht you want. Old(ish) style phone kind of thing.
“Let your plans be dark and as impenetratable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”
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iank
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 08:41 PM |
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One of these chopped in half and run as a pair
http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/endecaSearch/partDetail.jsp?sku=4194238
or chop up a few old phones.
[Edited on 9/9/06 by iank]
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tks
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| posted on 9/9/06 at 11:17 PM |
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nah....
i would go for the
copper idea!
its just a brushsystem!
and it will give the best result...
i would built it in the steering wheel.. (swap it with the original sierra one..)
Tks
The above comments are always meant to be from the above persons perspective.
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oliwb
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| posted on 10/9/06 at 12:35 PM |
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mmmm, had thought of both of these solutions....think I'll have to go with umbillical style cord but how to stop it dangling but at the same
time catching on everything! Cheers Oli.
If your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room!
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MikeRJ
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| posted on 10/9/06 at 01:20 PM |
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Brushes and slip rings are a bad idea, they cause electrical noise when moving and will quickly wear around the straight ahead position. They are
simply not a very reliable method of transfering low level signals.
Car manufacturers knew this a long time ago, and to solve this problem they use whats known as a "clock spring" on modern cars with
steering wheel controls and airbags. This is simply a long strip of a kind of flexible PCB with tracks etched into it, wound into a coil. The coil
is pre-set on assembly so that it doesn't run out of length over the whole steering lock. Grabbing one of these from a suitable scrapper would
solve your problems.
[Edited on 10/9/06 by MikeRJ]
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oliwb
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| posted on 15/9/06 at 04:28 PM |
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Interesting but where the hell do you find it (eg. car? model? year?) and how would you make it work in a sierra column....Oli.
If your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room!
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