Kevin:
Yeah I found out the hard way that LCD displays do not like the sun which is why I had to remount my XBM battery monitor under the starboard hatch. The LED displays of my Instrumentation panel should hold up better at the helm position and so far so good. As far as power consumption I have a switch that will turn the voltage displays on and off since I don't need to watch them that closely much of the time. The current display gets it's power from the helm power and so is only energised when I'm using things like my chart plotter or AIS display. I agree a Kindle type of display would be nice and WIFI connection would also be nice but, was a little to complicated for my needs.
Capt. Mike
http://biankablog.blogspot.com
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From: Kevin Pemberton <pembertonkevin@gmail.com>
To: electricboats@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, April 7, 2013 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [Electric Boats] Re: Helm Instrumentation Project
Nice Mike,
I also have been looking into a way to get feedback from my bank.
I admit my needs are different than a boater needs, but I like
your system. I am thinking of a dedicated E-book reader that
receives the information via WiFi from an arduino board set to
monitor my system locations of interest. The right reader will
give me a sun safe and easy to read display. My past experience
with LED displays is they are a little power hungry. The Problem
with LCD displays are sun will black them out and destroy them
with time. The idea of electric paper type display may well
overcome these problems. I just need to find the right tablet that
I can do some Java programming on (modify it's intended design),
and build an apt. I suppose I could use a smart phone and keep up
with the data remotely but that is more involved than I have
desire for.
Kevin Pemberton
On 04/07/2013 06:42 AM, cire wrote:
>Thanks Mike,
>
>Quite interesting.
>
>If you do your post as Rich-Text the addresses come out as
links, eliminating the need to copy and paste.
>
>eric SV Menader
>
>--- In electricboats@yahoogroups.com, Mike <biankablog@...> wrote:
>>
>> Recently I built a helm instrumentation panel so I
could keep an eye on battery voltages and current draw on
the propulsion bank without leaving the helm while
underway. It worked out pretty good though I still have to
mount it permanently. The links to the process I went
through are here:
>>
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/02/instrumentation-project-part-one-plan-a.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/02/instrumentation-project-part-two.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/02/instrumentation-project-part-three-plan.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/02/instrumentation-project-part-four.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-project-part-five-panel.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-project-part-six-choose.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-project-part-seven.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-project-part-eight.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-project-part-9.html
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com/2013/03/instrumentation-part-10-current-meter.html
>>
>> Capt. Mike
>> http://biankablog.blogspot.com
>>
>
>
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