My Gu The Beginning Of A Revoloution

[wazza4wd]

Hi guys here is the making of my GPS nav car entertainment system
Basic run down
10inch touchscreen car pc 120gb 512ram 3ghz process
wireless ps2 keyboard mini
usb gps antenna mounted in left side of dash opposite factory alarm
os media center 2005/ gps ozie explorer copilot 10
music through media center libary
still working on it but whole pc mounts in a computer cd case or dvd drive shell and mounts up under dash above glove box

photos to come shortly
whole build cos $700 NO NEED to tear apart your lappi or your brothers pc its better than my home pc lol !!!
I HAVE SHUT IT DOWN BY CRASHING THE POWER OVER 50 times and it just wont die!!!!!!! its amazing the hard reset on the power system specialy built for car punishment and even has a cooling fan and super quiet
what to know more ask me??

FOR ALL YOU GUYS INTERESTED CHECK OUT DESIGN ZONE ON EBAY !!!! DIRT CHEAP AND AWSOME :hatoff
wazza :hatoff

[vincentvega]

Revolution hey! maybe a personal one :lol:

Mate thats not a "power system specialy built for car punishment" Its an industrial PC card. Nothing new.

I ran a similar system for years. I now run a laptop based system with the LCD removed. I would recommend the laptop any day compared to the amount of work involved in getting a industrial PC running an housed properly.

hard shutting down your system WILL break it eventually. Its not hard to do it properly with a shutdown controller

[Nev]

Wazza

A great effort and a lot of work! Have fun with your projects - I do!
Just went to my van and took a photo of my VERY simple setup in our HiAce camper. Runs from the 12V auxilliary battery with no issues. Current draw 1.8A. Original power supply 19V.
The 14" acer 750mHz notebook is now worth perhaps $200? Travelled some 85000kms around Australia (2003-2006) and now here in NZ for another 20000km and it has performed faultlessly.
It sits on a piece of MDF panel jammed beneath our laid flat middle “jump seat" and the front end is resting on the ash tray.
Runs Garmin, OziExplorer and many other GPS programs without any issues.
It is simply connected to a Bluetooth GPS permanently wired in the glove box and a wireless mouse.

Neville

[Mr Router]

Revolution hey! maybe a personal one :lol:

Mate thats not a "power system specialy built for car punishment" Its an industrial PC card. Nothing new.

He thinks it is pretty good so one thinks that is all that matters, flick up a few photos of yours :mighty