Autometer D-PIC
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Autometer D-PIC
Anyone tried this Autometer D-PIC gauge yet? How can it accurately read everything it claims it does in a 2” self contained gauge. Sounds too good to be true
https://www.rpmoutlet.com/autdpic.htm
https://www.rpmoutlet.com/autdpic.htm
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Veratech and G-tech have been making them for years. I bought mine in 90. It does all that. It's bulky, but the 26 buck G-tech has about the same functions.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/26-95...04302671QQrdZ1
http://www.gtechpro.com/
For the advanced ones.
You could put it in a package the size of a cigar lighter, if it was big enough to read and push buttons.
The Autometer D-PIC is just a bit too pricey.
Chris
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/26-95...04302671QQrdZ1
http://www.gtechpro.com/
For the advanced ones.
You could put it in a package the size of a cigar lighter, if it was big enough to read and push buttons.
The Autometer D-PIC is just a bit too pricey.
Chris
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Welcome to the age of computers.
I say that a lot in the computer forums I post in...
It has an inertial tracking function.
Great name. It measures G-Force, and does the math. You can 'test' or fool one by holding it in your hand and tipping it up. It thinks your accelerating at 1 G.
Then you tip it back and it thinks you've stopped.
Sounds silly, but that's how they work, with a lot of software/firmware that does a good job of figuring out what the truck/car is actually doing. It feels the launch, and computes when you pass 60, 1/8, 1/4 whatever the model you are using is set for.
Some flaws, not too bad, are that if you have very little acceleration, it will kinda lose track. On my last Vette, it would work fine till I broke 135, then I wasn't boosting hard enough to keep it going. It thought I had slowed down or stopped. A metro with an automatic in third does that too...
Also they need to be pretty flat. That has some adjustment, but they must 'line up' with the acceleration.
To get horsepower, etc. is a matter of telling it your total weight, which it uses to find how much horsepower you are generating to accelerate.
They are more accurate, and more informative than I am making it sound.
A proven technology.
Chris
I say that a lot in the computer forums I post in...
It has an inertial tracking function.
Great name. It measures G-Force, and does the math. You can 'test' or fool one by holding it in your hand and tipping it up. It thinks your accelerating at 1 G.
Then you tip it back and it thinks you've stopped.
Sounds silly, but that's how they work, with a lot of software/firmware that does a good job of figuring out what the truck/car is actually doing. It feels the launch, and computes when you pass 60, 1/8, 1/4 whatever the model you are using is set for.
Some flaws, not too bad, are that if you have very little acceleration, it will kinda lose track. On my last Vette, it would work fine till I broke 135, then I wasn't boosting hard enough to keep it going. It thought I had slowed down or stopped. A metro with an automatic in third does that too...
Also they need to be pretty flat. That has some adjustment, but they must 'line up' with the acceleration.
To get horsepower, etc. is a matter of telling it your total weight, which it uses to find how much horsepower you are generating to accelerate.
They are more accurate, and more informative than I am making it sound.
A proven technology.
Chris
