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[Karl]

get yourself a Motorolla A1000 on 3 or o2, download nhgps from www.nhgps.com and you can use the internal gps to get your speed, just like me

[mighty_mini]

It was off of ebay.

The wireless range may only be 60cm's but giving me the ability to mount it on my steering wheel is quite handy.

[jimbo_edmondo]

is 60 cm a long enough range? It was you that said you had put it on your driveshaft pot wasn't it?

If i was to put it on the inside of my wheel would it not need re-balancing? This sounds cool, was thinking of making a new dash over the sumer!!! Possibly one of these LED rev counters someone is building as well?!!!

[mighty_mini]

I had it fitted to the pot joint, but to get the adjustment right i had to scrabble about under the car.


For the wheel , you could either

1. Clemical Metal the magnet on, then get the wheel balanced.

or

2.Fit two of the same magnets at opposite sides of the wheel, remembering to set the rotation to half of what 1 complete turn is. In effect this will make the speedo more accurate at higher speeds.

60cm's was plenty enough. as i purchased a reed switch from maplin for 30p and soldered it so that the switch was near the wheel/pot joint and the transmitter was at the base of the steering wheel.

[Woody]

I ground a small flat on the pot joint , smeared the magnet with araldite , didnt even need clamping !, i used the kit to mount the sensor onto the rear wheel of the bike , the wire was about a meter long it fits nicly to the center of the dash .
Note : bracket was made for the the PDA.

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[philster]

mine is mounted on the dash with the main clocks, when i replace it with a better one i'll probably build it into the clocks.

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[mattvallins]

I've got a Garmin GPS. Its 1 of the hiking ones, with a moving map! It was about £190 when I bought it a few years back. The thing with Garmin is they are the most widely used, so people write software for them. I have found a program which puts a moving map onto a screen, with streetnames etc on it! I am thinking of getting a PC (as mentioned in "madness" because I live near Pod) with a small tft screen in the car, for long journeys. This one even has voice-activated stuff :tongue:

[Podcake]

it seems that my ideas are growing



oh yeah and forgive me if i'm incorrect but i was under the impression that it was a legal requirement to have a legal calibrated speedo

You don't need a speedo for MOT, its not illegal not to have a speedo just illegal to speed

check with the DVLA and whoever but i'm fairly sure its illegal not to have a correctly set speedo ( because then u cant tell if u r speeding or not)

[mattvallins]

Fot the MOT, you have to have a speedo. However, mostly the MOT stations have no way of KNOWING the speedo works. A certain red Fiesta that I know has had 3 MOTs without 1 working.

[Podcake]

now which fiesta could that be??

well, ice, that thing that my chavvy associates frequently tell me is so important in a motor car, ( if you can call the monstrosities that the particular ones I'm thinking of drive cars at all! mmmmm go ford fiesta with more plastic stuck to rust than ever before known 'phat isn't it').