Shift lights…. (Multicoloured bar graph)

[Gripless]

Anyone running one?

 

Looking for feedback on what people like and what features or layouts are good.

 

I know the 2008+ cars have a beeper and tiny led but that really isn’t effective.

 

There are some nice F1 style LED strip ones but they are $300-450.

 

Also digital dashes that have them built in do they work well day and night and have any dimming?

Edited March 9 by Gripless

[Joker]

I'm not into Same Gender relations, but $23'ish is $23'ish 😎 

 

 

(sorry no actual positive contribution to the thread but kinda temped to buy for the Gravel Express LOL)

 

edit ah shoot near $40 for shipping

 

link for anyone else tempted (no kickback) : www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005439521584.html

 

[Gripless]

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005952894041.html 3.75” one for 27 +gst shipped.

 

for Ali add things to cart, then there are 3 small icons next to item, the first is find similar, then add to Wishlist, and remove from cart.

the find similar works pretty well.

 

 

Im looking at the F1 style ones with a row of LEDs that change colour until set point and then flash the whole bar.

[boon]

Outside of the track/strip, meh. And friends don't let friends buy monster tachos.

[Andy_Mac]

Can checked has them as part of their small can gauge or a module individually. Could probably just configure it to flash a section of the screen different colours as you approach the shift point too as another alternative.

[Gripless]

Looking at bar design one with option of 16-40 LEDs.

Dims automatically so not bright at night.

 

[boon]

At that point it's not a shift light, it's a bar-graph colour-coded tachometer.

[Joker]

I haven't watched the clip yet but I'm heading down the rabbit hole now

 

Audrino based system for "under $20" ("all other" commercially of the shelf items seem to be around $3-400 and yuck)

 

 

[Gripless]

3 hours ago, Joker said:

I haven't watched the clip yet but I'm heading down the rabbit hole now

 

Audrino based system for "under $20" ("all other" commercially of the shelf items seem to be around $3-400 and yuck)

Yeah I started looking at custom ones a month ago because of exactly the conclusion you came to. It’s why I posted the canbus topic.

Old cars rpm reading is just counting pulses and dividing that based on the number of cylinders. Eg 2 ignition events per revolution for a 4 cylinder. Every cheap micro controller can either count pulses or the time between them so it isn’t complicated.

 

Newer cars the ecu runs multi coil and the rpm signal is over canbus so you have to read the canbus messages and decode them. In some cases they do have a rom pulse from the dash cluster, but if you start opening dash clusters it raises flags if you ever want to verify the odometer.

Over the weekend I think I have some basic canbus reading working but before I can test I need some more parts to look after the power and now waiting on an order for that.
 

[Gripless]

made some good progress. 

Can set custom rpm redline, flashing options, set  brightness options etc all via webpage. Even added a light sensor so it dims based on light level.

Still have plenty of work left but better than most options I’ve seen to buy.

 

Found buttons with Icons to order for turning display on and off, as well as enable wifi web page.

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006666132955.html