Love my new Blue Fire VMS. Bruce Bean turned me onto the idea.The old silverleaf box with Dos looking screen, was pretty tired. It worked, was just getting hard to read.
I love Apple stuff (well it's kind of a love/hate relationship). Blue Fire has a ISO version (the green one). I bought a Ipad 10.2 8th gen brand new at best Buy. $329.00. Lucked out, found a used Blue Fire IOS on Ebay for 1/2 the new price of $190.00. $100.00 delivered. Guy sold his MoHo. Even at $190.00, it's cheap. I had to buy a 6 pin to 9 pin adapter, that was $30.00. A guy can make one also, or change the harness end on the FT. It's only 4 wires.
Super easy to set up and build a dash. They have dash's you can download from other people, or you can send your's to someone.Was a little more complicated, because I had to set the Ipad up 1st. Pretty cool though, the Ipad cloned itself to my phone. Unfortunately, I couldn't use my new Macbook air. Not supported yet. The app is free to download. It's in demo mode, till you hook it to your Blue Fire adapter. So you can see everything before you buy.
Bob Dale was helpful a bit, we both have 97's with Cat 3126's.
See my custom dash below.Ignore the junk at the top, this is a screen shot off my Ipad. You can make some pretty involved dash's, but this is all I watch. I know, no oil pressure. Caterpillar doesn't put that in the harness. When I asked them why, the said 'If it ain't got oil pressure, it ain't gonna run". And, "we don't want operators looking at the oil pressure". Probably because the run scary low even new.
Chris
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Topic: Blue Fire VMS