Carputer Update Part Duex

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Pretty much finished with everything. Screen came out ok, gonna get another screen housing and dash kit and mold them together for a nicer look...but it looks ok for the time being.

Here are the pics:

Here's the motherboard, hard drive, power supply, and amplifier (bottom left corner) installed. The wireless adapter is also installed behind the quarter panel.

USB Hub installed in the glovebox

Monitor install, like I said I'm going to mold it into the dashkit for a little cleaner look.

Screen on with Centrafuse front end program running

Acquiring connection for wireless internet

I've still got a few things left- mounting external hard drive case, mounting DVD drive in center console, adding GPS and Sirius...more will be done in the next few weeks.

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[thadman 10+ year member]

Do those monitors fit snug in double din openings?

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

That one fit pretty well- I just cut the mounting brackets off of the dash kit for my car and attached them to the screen housing.

 

[thadman 10+ year member]

what monitor is that?

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Xenarc 700TS

 

[thadman 10+ year member]

Im seriously contemplating doing this...are there any programs that allow you to run active crossovers?

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

Not that I know of...

 

[req 5,000+ posts]

snova, im not sure if you have this or not, but do you have any sort of vibration dampening on that harddirve? maybe some rubber bushings below it or somthing? because vibrations will be your worst enemy in this case.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

snova, im not sure if you have this or not, but do you have any sort of vibration dampening on that harddirve? maybe some rubber bushings below it or somthing? because vibrations will be your worst enemy in this case.

I've got 1" acoustical foam underneath the wood.

I did my research on HDD's and vibrations...most people say to just mount it securely and it'll do fine. The heatsink that I got for it keeps the HDD suspended about 1/2" off the surface as well.

 

[takeabao 10+ year member]

Im seriously contemplating doing this...are there any programs that allow you to run active crossovers?

If you had a carputer with serial port + Sony CDX-C90 + Sony XDP4000 + some digital coax/toslink cables + a lot of brains and know-how you would have one VERY *****in' active setup with a lot of flexibility.

That's pretty much the only way to control any sort of crossover at the PC level inside a car..

 

[SAG3 5,000+ posts]

mean

 

[AcidicDreams 10+ year member]

snova, im not sure if you have this or not, but do you have any sort of vibration dampening on that harddirve? maybe some rubber bushings below it or somthing? because vibrations will be your worst enemy in this case.

Desktop harddrives are rated in the hundreds of G's for shock, and as long as he's not in an accident or jumping his car he should do alright; especially with the mounting on the foam... A laptop harddrive would have been a little better of an idea but I don't think he'll have issues.. Heat may become an issue but it depends on the trunk.

 

[theCybe 5,000+ posts]

very trick, sir. very trick. +rep.

*edit; You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to snova031 again.

 

[jalverson 10+ year member]

sweet man, real nice

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

A little upset right now...I don't have any fawking media on this whatsoever- no movies, music, nothing- I planned on going home and connecting to my network and sharing all of my movies/music off of my home computer and grabbing them off of that- but for some reason I can't get my signal (I can get everyone elses signal, mine just doesn't show up). Then, I tried to take my 2nd HDD and use my IDE-USB adaptor and put all of my media on that and then put it in the car, but the adaptor sucks and none of my computers will recognize the USB drivers.

And, I don't have a dvd-drive yet because I don't have the cables for the slim dvd drive that I bought...balls.