Simmaz Member 11 Member For: 17y 9m 18d Location: Wollongong Posted 27/05/07 11:55 AM Share Posted 27/05/07 11:55 AM Hi All,Been doing a little reading over the weekend and am looking at doing my own LCD gauge system for my T....I have found a product at http://www.motorscan.com.au/ called the ElmScan PWM J1850 (Ford Corporation vehicles) that goes for AUD$155. It looks to basically handle everything from the Diagnostics Port to the RS232 connection on a PC/Laptop... It also has software which will make it easy for upper level verification... If anyone has a suggestion for a better interface product, let me know...From there, I am looking at my options and have come up with the following:1 - iPAQ (Palm PC)Will allow me to develop a .NET application that could:- Show digital readouts/gauges of anything that is transmitted across that CAN bus- Log all sensor data transmitted over that CAN bus for analysis- Data could be transferred to a PC as well for analysis/storage2 - Gameboy AdvanceWill allow me to develop a GBA application that could:- Show digital readouts/gauges of anything transmitted on the CAN Bus- Will be limited with its memory, screen size, and If anyone has any other options that they think will be more suitable, please let me know.... I am not planning on getting this done in a hurry, will probably take me around 6 months if it takes off as I have other commitments... that said, would appreciate input, cos if it works, I am keen to get it into as many T owners cars as possible... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbjunior99 Member 4,359 Member For: 22y 2m 11d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 27/05/07 12:02 PM Share Posted 27/05/07 12:02 PM Sounds like an interesting concept. Good luck with it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAP No boost, no bottle, just my foot on the throttle! Lifetime Members 7,935 Member For: 21y 20d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 27/05/07 12:02 PM Share Posted 27/05/07 12:02 PM You might want to do some searching.There are many issues with the USA based scanners/software that make them only partially useable on our cars.You need to get the PIDs for our cars to get all the CANBus features working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simmaz Member 11 Member For: 17y 9m 18d Location: Wollongong Posted 27/05/07 08:47 PM Author Share Posted 27/05/07 08:47 PM You might want to do some searching.There are many issues with the USA based scanners/software that make them only partially useable on our cars.You need to get the PIDs for our cars to get all the CANBus features working.ZAP_F6,Might be a stupid question but what are PID's?Simmaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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