Megalomaniac
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Mr.SQ
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for gps software i highly recomend iGuidance, its cheap and its the best one of all IMO. Has 3d (not true 3d) map viewing,you can imbed the software into a frontend,its just over all great.
thats pretty much it,all you need is a nice 8-10awg power and ground wire. I must say it is very CRUSCIAL that you ground it an actually ground,like the chasis,a lot of the weld joints are plastic weldings,it will not ground right,i mean it will ground but you will get a whining noise a long with engine acceloration.
here is a trick that i did for turning on the computer(i recomend this,but i dont want to recomend this for your buisness,just if you really know the guy and you want to hook em up. Wire the powersupply instead o the ignition wire to turn on cpu,wire that wire to the Accessory wire,i mean a reall acceroie wire not the cigarette lighter. do this only for remote start systems,so when they remote start the pc will boot and by the time they get to their car it will be already booted, another note if you are goin to do that be sure to wire the screen to a relay into theignition to complete the circiuit (meaning instead of the screen shining the car while the engine is on and none is there,the screen will be off till u put the key in car. wire the screen its sellf into one of the molex ground a 12v line.
another thing,i dont know if you are allowd to even install these into cars as a buisness, this carputer may very well could be illegal,because it is a distraction,no control of watching a dvd while driving(meaning you are not supose to have a vid runnin while driving), you may not even pass inspection. I always have my computer shutoff whenever i go for inspections,so i passed(despite my 5% tint) Man that was a lot of typing ,if you dont mind i am goin to copy this whole message so i can place in my carputer101 forum,this is very useful for people.
thats pretty much it,all you need is a nice 8-10awg power and ground wire. I must say it is very CRUSCIAL that you ground it an actually ground,like the chasis,a lot of the weld joints are plastic weldings,it will not ground right,i mean it will ground but you will get a whining noise a long with engine acceloration.
here is a trick that i did for turning on the computer(i recomend this,but i dont want to recomend this for your buisness,just if you really know the guy and you want to hook em up. Wire the powersupply instead o the ignition wire to turn on cpu,wire that wire to the Accessory wire,i mean a reall acceroie wire not the cigarette lighter. do this only for remote start systems,so when they remote start the pc will boot and by the time they get to their car it will be already booted, another note if you are goin to do that be sure to wire the screen to a relay into theignition to complete the circiuit (meaning instead of the screen shining the car while the engine is on and none is there,the screen will be off till u put the key in car. wire the screen its sellf into one of the molex ground a 12v line.
another thing,i dont know if you are allowd to even install these into cars as a buisness, this carputer may very well could be illegal,because it is a distraction,no control of watching a dvd while driving(meaning you are not supose to have a vid runnin while driving), you may not even pass inspection. I always have my computer shutoff whenever i go for inspections,so i passed(despite my 5% tint) Man that was a lot of typing ,if you dont mind i am goin to copy this whole message so i can place in my carputer101 forum,this is very useful for people.