GS1100EZ/ED Replacement : Red Universal Digital Gear Indicator

[CivilRock]

So I ordered this on the 18th and they estimated it would be here March 24th or something.

Got it today 10 days later.

Looks promising, and exactly what I was thinking of for my Bandit Cluster. It's definitely more compact than the stock unit. Not sure if I'm going to put this in my custom panel or try and fit it behind the dash where the Neutral light is. That would be trick.

Now all I need is Jim to find me a similar sized digital oil temp readout and I'll be good to go. :-\\\

Thanks for the tip man. I got rid of one check panel, only to replace it with my (probably janky) version of it.

-Kevin

 

[posplayr]

With a push button on the hand control you could cycle through these displays.

DROK Fahrenheit Scale 0.56" DC 12V Digital Car Clock Thermometer Voltmeter 3in1 Red LED Auto Gauges DS18b20 Probe

http://www.amazon.com/DROK-Fahrenhe...97&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=LED+temperatur+gauge


Red 3 ? 0.30inch 0-200V Digital Gauge DC Volt Meter LED Time/Temperature/Voltage

http://www.amazon.com/0-30inch-0-20...3648230&sr=1-5&keywords=led+temperature+gauge

How small you want it? This would actually fit inside of a gauge. (1.25"x.39"x.51")
DROK Mini Digital DC Car Clock 0-200V Voltage Temperature 3in1 Panel Meter 0.28" Red LED Display
http://www.amazon.com/DROK-Digital-...648422&sr=1-18&keywords=led+temperature+gauge

I'll be installing my gear indicator as well, but waiting on more parts. Will swap out all gauge lights and put a PWM dash light dimmer right below the LED Gear display.

You open up the little box and the pod and PCB card are quite small and just fit in that OEM gauge cox.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/0-100-12V-5...arts_and_Accessories&var=&hash=item2a3251b3fb

 

[CivilRock]

I just ordered the Fahrenheit version in red for $18 shipped. I'm not positive, but it looks like this one is the same guts, but with the black plastic trim. I plan on only using the guts.

I have no idea if it's going to work, but I'm thinking of putting the gear indicator where the Neutral light is, and this one where the temp light is. I'm talking about under the tinted plastic on the Bandit instrument cluster I have.

If it works, I'll be a genius. If it doesn't, I'll figure something else out.

I'll also be shopping for some sort of buttons, but not sure which way I want to go with that yet. I want to see if it will work first. I'm also hoping that I can use the GS oil temp sender instead of the built in one they have.

 

[posplayr]

I just ordered the Fahrenheit version in red for $18 shipped. I'm not positive, but it looks like this one is the same guts, but with the black plastic trim. I plan on only using the guts.

I have no idea if it's going to work, but I'm thinking of putting the gear indicator where the Neutral light is, and this one where the temp light is. I'm talking about under the tinted plastic on the Bandit instrument cluster I have.

If it works, I'll be a genius. If it doesn't, I'll figure something else out.

I'll also be shopping for some sort of buttons, but not sure which way I want to go with that yet. I want to see if it will work first. I'm also hoping that I can use the GS oil temp sender instead of the built in one they have.

See picture for the approximate size of the smallest display in a GS1100ED tach face. It is very dooable as there is nothing behind teh face except you have to be careful with how you cut the plastic and gauge face. Use masking tape as a guide and maybe drill the corners first.

 

[CivilRock]

After I posted this I looked again at the pictures and the "Mini" is about 20cm smaller so I canceled the order and ordered the Mini/Metric one.

 

[posplayr]

After I posted this I looked again at the pictures and the "Mini" is about 20cm smaller so I canceled the order and ordered the Mini/Metric one.

It is amazing what you can find on ebay. I'm being amazed every day.

Here are RFID reader devices for not much more than $6 per set.

I lookup the primary part and it is $5+ from digikey. So everything else I'm getting for $1

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251249274375?_trksid=p2055120.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[CivilRock]

It is amazing what you can find on ebay.

I do love the internets. Funny, but I bought a computer in 1997 for the sole purpose of finding a replacement tachometer for my VX800. I found one for 1/3 cost and declared the internet a useful tool.

I wasn't thinking of the Tachometer faceplate, but that's a great idea. (gotta love the forums too). I was thinking of taking apart the tinted lower part and substituting the lights out with these tiny little gems. I'm not sure they're going to fit now that I'm looking at my own picture.

I've got roughly 60% of the tach face open for other uses, and my redline is surely not 14,000 RPM. I'll be interested to see what's behind that guy and how much room there is.

BTW, The Bandit clocks I bought had 23,000 miles on them. When I opened up the speedo to remove the spiders, I took the liberty to set it back to 30.

 

[posplayr]

I would be real tempted to put at least one is not more LED displays in that big thing. I would also paint over everything past the 12 or get an 1100 tach.

 

[CivilRock]

Where did you get this picture? Is this your project? Did somebody already put a display behind the faceplate? I'd like to see a project if this was already done.

-Kevin

 

[posplayr]

Where did you get this picture? Is this your project? Did somebody already put a display behind the faceplate? I'd like to see a project if this was already done.

-Kevin

No somebody here mentioned doing it; I requested pictures but I did not see them answer. So I measured a piece of tape and put it on the tach I had laying around. You have plenty of room in your tach for various options.

I would do it for Volts as digital is more accurate than analog, but I like my analog oil pressure gauge so the analog volt meter balances it out.

 

[CivilRock]

So I just got my mini volt/temp/time gadget in the mail from China. I'm now trying to figure out where to mount it. I was hoping that it would be tiny enough to wedge inside the area where the temperature idiot light is, but I don't know if that's going to be a good idea. I've also got the gear indicator that I thought would be cool where the Green Neutral light is. All hidden away and invisible to the masses.

I'm going to hook the thing up first and see if it even works before I start cutting stuff up. It would be pretty cool if I could hide both of these inside the tachometer housing and have them show through the dial face....

 

[posplayr]

So I just got my mini volt/temp/time gadget in the mail from China. I'm now trying to figure out where to mount it. I was hoping that it would be tiny enough to wedge inside the area where the temperature idiot light is, but I don't know if that's going to be a good idea. I've also got the gear indicator that I thought would be cool where the Green Neutral light is. All hidden away and invisible to the masses.

I'm going to hook the thing up first and see if it even works before I start cutting stuff up. It would be pretty cool if I could hide both of these inside the tachometer housing and have them show through the dial face....

here is an idea if you are ambitious. Figure out a way to change the light arrangement.

And swap things as so:

• Neutral become Left Turn
• High Beam becomes Right Turn
• Turn becomes HIGH Beam with the LED gauge indicator inserted into the center.

The Neutral light with gear indicator is a bit redundant. If the back lighting with high beam is not too much you should still be able to clearly see the gear and the change to green when in Neutral.




Get some of that plastic floresent plastic for light boxes so you have the diamond defusing pattern on one side of the plastic, and then insert new

 

[CivilRock]

I was thinking nearly the same thing, but what about the 3 in 1 Temp/Volt/Time unit? I have some of that light box material from my Airstream RGB LED project.

I was going to go a little different:

• delete turn indicator - insert gear indicator top and center. I can see the front turn signals from the driver's seat anyway.
• delete Neutral and Temp (now redundant)- insert 3 in 1 in that space.

Kind of like how I imagined it in my previous picture when I didn't realize what was where on the dash You know, it's new to me.

I'm expecting the temp sensor to work with the onboard sensor under the carbs. Hopefully I'm right. I'm also expecting the volt meter to jump all over the place when it's reading and that Posplayr will have a simple solution to slowing it's movement. :-\\\

Thanks for the feedback.

-Kevin

 

[posplayr]

I was thinking nearly the same thing, but what about the 3 in 1 Temp/Volt/Time unit? I have some of that light box material from my Airstream RGB LED project.

I was going to go a little different:

• delete turn indicator - insert gear indicator top and center. I can see the front turn signals from the driver's seat anyway.
• delete Neutral and Temp (now redundant)- insert 3 in 1 in that space.

Kind of like how I imagined it in my previous picture when I didn't realize what was where on the dash You know, it's new to me.

I'm expecting the temp sensor to work with the onboard sensor under the carbs. Hopefully I'm right. I'm also expecting the volt meter to jump all over the place when it's reading and that Posplayr will have a simple solution to slowing it's movement. :-\\\

Thanks for the feedback.

-Kevin

It will lose a little voltage but it will have a lot less noise. If you volt meter will adjust then reset it for 14.5 when the terminal is at 14.5 rather than the meter.

 

[CivilRock]

Pretty sure the meter is not adjustable.
That's a 10 Ohm capacitor right? I don't know electro speak very well.

-Kevin

 

[posplayr]

Pretty sure the meter is not adjustable.
That's a 10 Ohm capacitor right? I don't know electro speak very well.

-Kevin

You are correct, you dont know.


10uF is 10 Mico Farads. Ohms is resistance for a resistor.

The value is not critical and the larger you make it the better but there will be a limit to where big enough is big enough.