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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 2:35 pm 
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Here's mine. Carbon Fibre Panel with Speedhut gauges:

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Not quite finished yet, needs some upholstery and fire extinguisher mounted in front of the passenger.


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PostPosted: Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:43 pm 
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jpodge wrote:
I know I've asked this question before, but did anyone who has made their own dashboard with new warning lights and the like have any issues with the alternator failing to apply sufficient charge to the battery? Also, Did you wire in the voltage regulator from the original instrument cluster?

I used the original cluster and wired it to the regulator. I had problems with the alternator not charging the battery. A simple rookie error when I changed the globes in the cluster to LED it meant the ALT light was not drawing enough current to turn on the alternator.
I changed the globe back to normal and it worked again.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 8:34 am 
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Dutchy1978 wrote:
jpodge wrote:
I know I've asked this question before, but did anyone who has made their own dashboard with new warning lights and the like have any issues with the alternator failing to apply sufficient charge to the battery? Also, Did you wire in the voltage regulator from the original instrument cluster?

I used the original cluster and wired it to the regulator. I had problems with the alternator not charging the battery. A simple rookie error when I changed the globes in the cluster to LED it meant the ALT light was not drawing enough current to turn on the alternator.
I changed the globe back to normal and it worked again.


I too made that same mistake, with the alt warning light being an LED. After I realized my mistake, I wired the original globe back in. But still when the car is idling, I don't get the 14.3 V. The multimeter just reads whatever the battery is at which is normally a tiny bit over 12 V. I don't have the regulator wired in at the moment.

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:37 am 
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MrOrange - that looks great. I've got some speedhut gauges in my daily driver (Navara ute) and will be putting some in my next project including a GPS speedo. I think they're great. Yours has a bit of a fighter pilot look to it. Maybe not quite spitfire as they were too basic, but def aeronautical look to it. I've decided to copy you guys and carbon fibre wrap my dash too!

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 11:58 am 
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Standard woodgrain dash covered in leather


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PostPosted: Tue Jul 21, 2015 1:23 pm 
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Spotted this dash on Facebook, I particularly like the section housing the speedo and rev counter. i've been wanting to do something similar with SS as a friend of mine at uni has built himself a CNC plasma cutter


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