Digital voltage gauge mount location?
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Digital voltage gauge mount location?
I have one of these sweet digital voltage monitors pictured here:
I am wondering where I should mount it?
I need a hole not all that much smaller than the face, the circuit board behind it is pretty big. Goes about 3/4" deep as well.
Right now it is in my glovebox, but it's pretty sad, it's held in with tape.
It needs to be somewhere relatively visible to me and at a good angle, with it in my glovebox facing straight back, it was hard to see what was on the display, especially in sunlight. I just moved it and put it on an angle so hopefully it is easier to see, but I will have to wait until tomorrow for that.
If you have any ideas, please let me know!! Thanks
I am wondering where I should mount it?
I need a hole not all that much smaller than the face, the circuit board behind it is pretty big. Goes about 3/4" deep as well.
Right now it is in my glovebox, but it's pretty sad, it's held in with tape.
It needs to be somewhere relatively visible to me and at a good angle, with it in my glovebox facing straight back, it was hard to see what was on the display, especially in sunlight. I just moved it and put it on an angle so hopefully it is easier to see, but I will have to wait until tomorrow for that.
If you have any ideas, please let me know!! Thanks
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Rep Power: 470 i have a digital voltage gauge also...what are they for? when i plugged mine up my system didn't work ...when i plug ged it out it worked???
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Rep Power: 787 Ooh I like that, but I have a cell phone holder there already
Mine isn't even hooked up to my amp. It's supposed to be for a PG Tantrum amp, but I cheated and cut the wire that came with it to hook up to a regular power and ground
Mr. Modify, it's just so you can check the level of voltage in your electrical system. More for information purposes than anything else, next to that are safety and diagnostic purposes.
Mine isn't even hooked up to my amp. It's supposed to be for a PG Tantrum amp, but I cheated and cut the wire that came with it to hook up to a regular power and ground
Mr. Modify, it's just so you can check the level of voltage in your electrical system. More for information purposes than anything else, next to that are safety and diagnostic purposes.
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Rep Power: 787 below the deck where it curves around and into the cup holders is too round to mount it anywhere cleanly. It's too big to go into the pocket
No way to wire it nicely in the cup holder
I'm confizzled
No way to wire it nicely in the cup holder
I'm confizzled
mine is better...does voltage from battery, output voltage from amp, temperature in F and C.
i used the two cutouts next to the cig lighter outlet thing and cut it to fit.
http://www.sounddomain.com/sku/LITVT1
i used the two cutouts next to the cig lighter outlet thing and cut it to fit.
http://www.sounddomain.com/sku/LITVT1
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Rep Power: 329 I take it that the face plate doesn't come off (black square thing). If it came off, it'd be a whole lot smaller, and you could glass it in anywhere you wanted.
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Rep Power: 0 That gives me a fun idea. I think maybe I'll try to mount a radio shack analog meter in my car. You know which one I'm talking about right? The one that you buy in desperation when you either can't find your real multi-meter or you are out of town doing some work and forgot to take yours? I think that would be funny and worth doing just for laughs.
Originally Posted by turboslug
i personally wouldnt pay more than $20 for a voltmeter....cant you peeps just whip out a multimeter when you need it? i think those 7-seg LED displays are ugly..haha
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Originally Posted by tbaleno
That gives me a fun idea. I think maybe I'll try to mount a radio shack analog meter in my car. You know which one I'm talking about right? The one that you buy in desperation when you either can't find your real multi-meter or you are out of town doing some work and forgot to take yours? I think that would be funny and worth doing just for laughs.
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Originally Posted by PopcornPlaya
I take it that the face plate doesn't come off (black square thing). If it came off, it'd be a whole lot smaller, and you could glass it in anywhere you wanted.
turboslug, I could easily hook up my multimeter, but that wouldn't give me real time voltage any time that I wanted it.
naw..i didnt steal mine...was given to me to "test" by the lightning audio guys...we were gonna use it in an spl truck...but didnt really need it...used 16 flukes instead...
it was hot in AZ today..lol
it was hot in AZ today..lol
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Originally Posted by Alex053
naw..i didnt steal mine...was given to me to "test" by the lightning audio guys...we were gonna use it in an spl truck...but didnt really need it...used 16 flukes instead...
"yeah, we were gonna go with this one gauge, but decided against it for these 16 flukes instead... yeah"
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Originally Posted by Alex053
naw..i didnt steal mine...was given to me to "test" by the lightning audio guys...we were gonna use it in an spl truck...but didnt really need it...used 16 flukes instead...
it was hot in AZ today..lol
it was hot in AZ today..lol
naw..they were on top of the swinging amp rack...when your running 16 BD1500s to a pair of 18's, you need a meter you can put on peak hold to see if you have a weak amp in the bunch...fluke has that..the little guage wouldnt do us much good. it also makes it easier to level match all the amps if you have a meter for each one..you dont have to go down the line to see which one is a little off 
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