Pfc Hand Controler - Dash Mounting

[seeyagtr]

I wanted to know if anyone had any ideas on rebuilding a hand controller in to a large dash mounted screen. using the inturnals of a stanard hand control and then using a larger LCD sceen and so custom buttons to make a lager read out you can mount ie: center pannel.

Has any one done this before or know of any other way to get a larger read out that can be dash mounted?

Cheers

[a20089]

No ideas but would love to see the results

[Bliksem]

im sure it could be done... be nice if you could make to look like the stack dash clusters...

[seeyagtr]

I think that it would look quite good, It would be nice to set it up like the 34 GTR read out!!

[paulr33]

the part # used for the screen and splitting it up is covered in the pfq faq in my signature, have a browse through

the rx7 guys have done some cool hacks on it

[sewid]

^^ Ya. Seen it done. It does look good. It's a pity the PowerFC HC screen is so lacklustre. You can replace it with an aftermarket LCD if you're good with a soldering iron Good luck with that adventure though.

[joeyjoejoejuniorshabadoo]

what paulr33 said.. in the faq link the rx7 guys have some reall good ones

[seeyagtr]

They look realy impressive, I have not played with LCD moduals before, I will get one in and see what happens!!

I just need to find a second hand controler and hack it up and see what happens!!

[Bliksem]

ahh yes the RX7 hack ones on Paul's site are pretty sweet.... I thought you were trying to attempt something similar to this!

[seeyagtr]

That looks sweet!!!

How do I do that???

[Beer Baron]

umm, you just buy a stack panel. make sure you have wallet handy and well stocked.

[Beer Baron]

But the stack panel is pretty old school now and very expensive for what it is. I would go with:

[skybarge]

that is nice as

there must be a way to integrate it into a 4x16 LCD though? then put that in the dash for cheaper?

might have to read that RX7 site for some hacks...

[skybarge]

hmmm, i think the one with the mini LCD strip(two lines 16x2) might be going into a laptop, then through serial to it.

If it is, wicked i've got a custom car PC I'm building and wouldn't mind doing that, although I could just display my stats on my 8" LCD i guess, but having the watertemp under the speedo like that looks awesome

[paulr33]

ive had limited sucess from trying any of it

i brought another screen that was the same model and part # but a different colour and couldnt get it working off a pfc hand controller

ive got a busted hand controller that still boots so i cut the lead on it and run it off USB power from my pc

i then spliced in the new screen i brought (details are in the pfc faq, even a photo of the new lcd display) but it doesnt work

the new screen just doesnt fire up so im not sure whats wrong, could be wrong pinouts, could be wrong version/unit/voltage etc.