Lesson learnt.. changing the CD stacker (Complete unit) causes screen to go black. Just a word of warning to everyone!
After powering up some other units, I think your right aumatt, Must be losing my mind since it hasnt changed.
TazzI wrote:Robertau wrote:Those premium ICC's do look sweet hey, the one i have came out of a BF Fairlane so is piano black.
Ahhh they look good.
I have the molten silver (I think thats its name). It matches the silver inserts on the passenger and drivers side. Ill grab some pics later.
On a side note, any clue how to use the rear video input? Does it instantly display when you input a signal, or do you need to click a button?
Robertau wrote:molten or liquid silver or something like that, mine ended up painted gloss black to match the ICC as close as i could, then didnt like the look so changed to the Graphite colour ones with the gloss black vents.
I think the video is switched automatically when it gets signal. there is a Doco on ford mods about making a cable that hooks to a laptop but needed certain video cards.
here's the link to the icc video input
http://www.fordmods.com/ford-technical- ... -input-d38
Rob
TazzI wrote:Yeah I pretty happy with the molten silver. Goes well with the silver inserts to the left/right of it.
Fixed a few 6stackers now so feeling pretty confident with them. Only a billion tiny screws
TazzI wrote:Yeah I pretty happy with the molten silver. Goes well with the silver inserts to the left/right of it.
Fixed a few 6stackers now so feeling pretty confident with them. Only a billion tiny screws
Sounds like a photo copier. have you ever attacked one of them? i got the chance once. there's billions in them too.
So what do think the go is with the do not rotate on the icc's? i tipped my old one upside down and still works, still loads cd's sure it still plays them too, it was only a single cd one though. the 6 stacks would have more to move in them.
TazzI wrote:I figured that must be the case. So Ill have to manually enable/disable the video to turn off/on... riiigghhhhtttt.
I was hoping to steer away from a carpc.Simply because it gets too expensive too quickly, plus loading times of the PC is slow unless using a high grade pc, SSD and top ram.
TazzI wrote:Currently looking into something a bit more simple using a microcontroller and reverse camera. Just want to have the reverse camera display when put into reverse, and then back to main screen after going to drive or any other gear.
The hardest part... it find a device suitable for outputting rbgs. The fordmod doco assumes using an oldschool with vga output. So Im going to have to find a suitable converter.
GoFastBits wrote:Hey guys
So after much reading here (tonnes of great info btw!) my main question is can i convert say a fairmont Dualzone cluster into an XR V8 Dualzone cluster? (with the changes to how the trip meter/etc is displayed and able to use the 2 buttons on the side to raise/lower light brightness and also enable the little "reset" button on the ICC (currently does nothing with a standard XR cluster installed)
I've done the DZ conversion a long time ago, wouldn't mind actually putting a matching cluster in setup for a BF V8 with DSC.
GoFastBits wrote:With the ODO, did you guys ever figure out which address's actually effect the ODO or is it still effectively "copy the first line" to mirror my current odo (or did you ever pinpoint the DTC's so i could do it how matt suggested, zero it, set it with CAN then wipe the codes?)
In the interest of throwing out ideas, is it possible to read this chip whilst its powered up on an installed-in-car cluster?
I wonder, if you can read it with it powered up in the car, whats stopping someone whose programmer can successfully read "in-circuit" hooking the programmer up to a laptop and just dumping the bin every km and reading the changes, i'd guess that'd help in nutting out the ODO ? (I do about 50km's to work, 100km's round trip every day so ...fair few dumps i dont have a programmer yet to attempt any of this, otherwise i'd be willing to dump mine over and over )
GoFastBits wrote:ps, i picked up one of those ASL video adapters a while ago off Ebay stupid cheap, think about $40 as the seller had destroyed the plug on the unit (guessing while removing it, just yanking hard, tried to fix it, melted half the plug and socket with a soldering iron it looked like).
Luckily in the broken plug there were enough bits of wire sheath left in there to figure out what wire went where, desoldered the old destroyed socket, soldered the wires directly to the PCB, fixed up the ICC end where that had been cut too. Instant cheap reverse camera (havn't used the switchable AUX video input for anything yet, just the reverse triggered video input)
The ICC switched over to video as soon as it senses a video input, theres no "switch wire" to make it switch, so if you have a converter, you'll need either one with a reverse input trigger or power it off reverse lights otherwise the screen will be on video all the time. The Sync wire is also Sync'ed to Green and the ICC plug side is really easy to find, used on older falcons and toyota's. This is the Tech Doc i used which fixing up my asl unit - http://www.fordmods.com/ford-technical- ... -input-d38 -
Do you mean the buttons that are actually apart of the cluster? Since they are directly controlled by the cluster? If they are not working, Id double check they are not damaged.
The odometer stuff was worked out enough to get by. Although this has not been publicly released. As you can imagine, there will suddenly overnight be a million dodgey ebay services and gumtree services offering to change odometers!.
Any chance of some pics of the module? And the insides of its guts?
I noticed you said "The Sync wire is also Sync'ed to Green", not quite sure what you mean there?. Most modern RGB plugs have sync on green, but in this circumstance they have the sync separated.