FAT FALCON

Hi all just wondering wat ppl with digital dashes think of them, how does the digi speedo work?? is it a bit confusing wen u get up it?? i'm considering getting one inplace of my s pac cluster thanx!

Bass Crazy

I love the things.

The only thing that annoys me a bit is that you can't change the display color of them, oh well.

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NZ

The only thing I dont like about them is the tacho is a weird design as in it sarts from 4 oclock and goes to 1 oclock and that the door open signs seem to give occasional problems. Things I like about them... I can compare my speed with another car as its easy to look over in the night and see what the speedo in anoter car is reading

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Ghia5L

The digital speedo works via a transducer. I'll simplify with a single number 8 (think of the digital "8" made up of 7 segments) as shown below:

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A binary code is like this:

000
001
010
011
100
101
110
111

Let's assume that each number lights up particular segments of the number 8. 0-9 kph works in this way on the speedo:

Speed = 0kph
Binary Code = 000
"8" = (see below)
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Speed = 1kph
Binary Code = 001
"8" = (see below)

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Speed = 2kph
Binary Code = 010
"8" = (see below)
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Speed = 3kph
Binary Code = 011
"8" = (see below)
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etc etc

Hope this works.

-Dave-

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FAT FALCON

hehe, yer thanx Ghia5L... I already new that thanx.. but what i ment, wen u put the pedal to the floor, does it get confusing watching all those numbers go up, can u just glimps at them and tell were ur at, like a neadle??? Its just 0-60Kph, goes awfully quik, can u read it while accelerating.... Have i made ne sence?? thanx alot tho fellas... i like that tacho like that, tis y i want one :-)

Dirty Epic

That's the one thing i dont like about it. You dont see the acceleration, if you know what i mean. With anolouge you can see the pin sweep past all those numbers.

But when i am giving it i tend to watch the tacho. so it dont matter anyway

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Evil Roy

FWIW, I prefer the S-Pak gauges. Really meaty look to them.

Troutman

I don't recommend accelerating full bore while starting at the speedo either. The digital and analogue systems each have their points, so there's no right or wrong. Certainly nothing to worry about either way.

Bass_Crazy: check out what this guy did.

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1990 Ford Laser S

Need PSI

the digital dash is crazy in my opinion, i love it, even though mine reads 500,000+kms on the clock! i havent had any problems so far with mine, my speedo is out 8km/h but thats because of the cable not the dash (had the trans changed not too long ago). you cant see your acceleration but you get the idea when you see the numbers jump about 10kms when you change gears!

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qwikcorty

is that in a car or aeroplane! looks pretty good all the same!

could u put the blue lights in the s pac guages?

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