Re: Silver Leaf Dashboard
Reply #29 –
Yes I have a VMSpc. My original thought when I bought the hp stream 11 notebook to run it on was to relay the notebooks screen shot to a dedicated iPad on a ram mount attached to the drivers side wooden boxes forward edge so that the iPad would be visible in the corner of my vision while driving.
I do use an iPad setup to my right on a Ram weighted base that I let run on all stays in the portrait mode with the program on hybrid so it overlays the roads over the sat view of the terrain. Self center mode so my position is always centered,
Plus I have a small garmin on a weighted base to the right of the instrument dome I leave on an never reset the mileage ran during a trip as it records the total mileage and hours and average speeds and stopped time.
If I used it to plan routes and add the next route on it will remember and I would be able to go back and follow our exact route.
But we wander sort off. The route we take is influenced by the weather and temps and the weather radar ahead,
DW will use here iPad to choose between the various routes using the windy, weather radar, gas buddy and the allstays and the campground review as needed.
So open notebook to the right on the dash running VMSpc and the iPad on the folded up trays left corner facing down the coach and the small garmin on as it has traffic info and the local speed limit on its screen.
As I posted I like the gauge layout Foretravel used. Swing needles at the top edge works very well.
For exact numbers the notebook shows the real info more accurately. The VMSpc allowed me to figure out the fan drive was stuck on high speed all the time.
Added 50 hp back to the coach and 1-2 mpg. Thanks to VMSpc.
Have not finished the drivers window valance setup yet for the iPad as we have been distracted with two remodels and my 92 year old mom staying with us for two weeks at a time..
Mostly look with adverted vision the factory VDO gauges.
The military plane had the gauges turned so it had every red pointer straight up if normal
Unlike you young boys here I have noticed my attention span is not as good as others here.
I looked closely at Bob Rozens glass dash and I(me) would not have been able to read its info with adverted vision. Just low enough I would have to look down and study the numbers displayed.
I notice the 07 Phoenix for sales glass dash seems larger? And has circular needles on its display.
Bob Rosen removed his back lit electroluminescent dash panel set which I purchased as I like the adjustable edge lighting per panel.
Bluebird also used the same kind of dash.
The retention of the stock dash was why I had my buddy have his electronic guy repair the javalena audit system.
It had a bad coil inside it's box. Now it's stable. I did replace the rear camera with a newer design with the infrared lighting from rv camera. Our coach has a right side camera from oem new which also works well.
Topic: Silver Leaf Dashboard