My home grown carkit

[climber]

Hi all,

Yesterday I finished building my 0.5 release of an XDA car kit. I put together a few pages you can check out.

http://www.climber.nl/Project/XDA/Carkit/Images/XDA%20carkit%20dashboard%20view.JPG

If you want to see the endresult go directly to:

http://www.climber.nl/Project/XDA/Carkit/XDA%20carkit%20All%20built%20into%20the%20car.htm

To see why and how I have done things, check out the top page of this project: http://www.climber.nl/Project/XDA/Carkit/XDA%20carkit%20introduction.htm.

The pages don't like nice but hey!! it's my first attempt. Just couldn't wait to show it :oops:

Robert[/url]

[gazzaman2k]

Hi please could you give me some info on what the capators are on the shematic diagram please? what does the little bit of writting say at the side of it i cant read it because the line is going though :( im going to try make a working cable the same way you built yours but instead it will have audio out and mic in hopefully if i can try get it to work :) as far as i can make out they say 1vf is this right? sorry i havent got much schematic knowledge as im only 17 and want to make a car kit for my car with gps too so i can use tomtom to help me get around as i am learning to drive at the moment and when i pass it will help me out alot to get around the UK :o)

thankyou :)

also great work mate looks brill. I cant get hold of one of the Ipaq connectors at teh moment because the place you have on ur site has ran out of stock :( but i opened up my usb cable and most of the pins are missing and only 5 left :( so i guess i cant use that.

[gazzaman2k]

which one of these is suitable mate for this?

http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=030427020133790&moduleno=24646&modulecode=

http://www.maplin.co.uk/products/module.asp?CartID=030427020133790&moduleno=24538&modulecode=

im thinking they are in the 2nd link but which one out of them are they? please could you let me know thankyou or even http://www.maplin.co.uk if they are not right please could you find them for me on here thankyou :)

regards Gareth :cry:

looking athe the xda connector page on here at the h/f kit bit it says 3 x 47p which i have found these.....


SF84F EMIFIL 3 Term 47pF £0.01

Features
• 1205 size 3 terminal capacitors
• Compact and thin
• High level of noise suppression
• Excellent high frequency characteristics
Applications
• EMI suppression in various electronic equipment
• EMI suppression of AC signal lines and DC power lines
• Severe EMI suppression in high impedance
circuits such as digital

[climber]

Gareth,

Those 4F EMIFIL 3 Term 47pF £0.01 seem right.

The stuff on the other page are what we call ELCO's over here. There are not suited for this particular job.

I recall the page saying 47pF as well. The value of this capacitor determines the frequency characteristics of the decoupling 'filter' we are making here. I had a couple of 1uF 's lying around here.

Since they are cheap you might consider buying both or even a third and see what that does to the sound.

I had good results so far, but you have to keep in mind that I like to drive fast and my car gets rather noisy then :twisted:

Let me know what your results are!

Robert