Building a Boost, Water Temp & Tachometer Gauge System for the Simulator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- I stumbled across some cheap Boost, Water Temp and Tachometer gauges on Amazon recently, so I thought what the heck, and decided to try and integrate them into my sim rig.
As is usually the case with most sim-related projects, I'm not the first person to think of this, so I used a few of the guides from AMSTUDIO as a reference and then adapted them to suit my particular integration.
This video shows how I wired everything up as well as how to configure SimHub to get it all working, as well as the end result.
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From Woodwork to Electrical to software tutorials, like being back at school this :) Great work chief love the content
Thanks for this vid - I've done stuff like this on my flight sim cockpit build, but didn't know it was possible on my race sim until I saw this, and was impressed by the sketch maker for the Arduino. On the flight sim you have to make it yourself, so this is way better!
With SimHub, depending on what your hardware is, you might also need to setup everything yourself, along with the equipment.
My dashboard is a fully DIY-type of setup, so I can't use any of the ready-made modules, and have to go full Custom-Protocol.
Awesome video, Will! I loved the in-depth documentation of this project and the pacing of the video. So often these little projects on youtube are either over in a second or painfully slow paced beginner level.
I'm really looking forward to all the crazy ideas the new studio will surely have spawned already. =)
Two observations. First, please refer (as you did sometimes) to pin numbers on the MOSFET. referring to “outside terminal” is confusing at best. Second, while I realize this is in no way your issue to resolve, it appears your boost gauge has three connectors. Mine has none - just a 4 wire harness coming from the instrument. ...no idea where the data signal is supposed to come from
2 years later, do you still use these? I love the idea.
I have tried to replicate this same thing before but its just too much for my brain to comprehend. If someone out there did exactly what you just did but also with a speedo and a cluster I would sure as hell pay for that fully assembled lol
It’s super easy to setup now there a website they sell the kit plug and play
Its too hard to mee but great work,must looks awesome at the night ;P
Question mate - I have RPM. Guage connected to arduino nano and it says connected on simhub and the guage is on I can test manually on the stick of the guage but the needle not working again all when I click test rpm on simhub or when I try to play AC or any other supported games. Any idea for fix?
Salut tres bonne vidéo !
J'ai déjà une jauge de turbo avec un Arduino je voulais savoir si la jauge de température fonctionnait sur Assetto Corsa ? Merci 😄
the way it looks you should have a cable for power pass throught because you have 2 power inpout/output in the back of you're gauge on the bottom
Correct, but if I use that then I can't control power to the gauges individually.
@@boostedmedia i've a 4 set gauge install in my car with the power passtrought and it works fine, i have 2 power cable from my batterie one for the setting and the other for the gauge itself, but if you want to control each gauge separatly np :) keep the good content
For the long term, please disable that beep on the rev counter. It's a tad bit annoying and it seems to make you up-shift too early and lose time.
Remember that it's supposed to be a reminder, not an enforcer. ;)
Yeah absolutely. I just had it a little lower to demonstrate in the video. it's set correctly for the MX5.
@@boostedmedia Yeah, you said that in the video. I'd just prefer the sound of an engine in the limiter to a frenetic beep as a viewer. I'm not meaning to sound negative or mean but is an added artificial beep in the videos really that much more of a help than a good shift light (which is already a hassle to get right for each car)? I personally don't like stuff beeping at me, especially when the alternative is an internal combustion engine in the limiter, downshift protection is usually about the most I want to take. But that might just be me. ;)
EDIT: I very much appreciate you showing off this feature in this project video, though, don't get me wrong! =)
@@Bassalicious Oh yeah absolutely! No way I'll have it going off like that in my racing videos. I'll probably disable the beep all together TBH as the shift light is enough.
I need these in my life :P
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The gauges linked have completely different looking connections than those shown in the video, do they still work?
Hello could you help me for the connection of the temperature gauge because I can not understand if you have a diagram to give me thank you
hey mate, could I ask what type and model of soldering device you using? I am looking to find all the needed tools to start making my own button boxes etc. and I founf so many tools just for soldering but I don't really know which I must choose..also, I am a complete beginner in this kind of things, never soldered anything in 33 years of my life :)
thanks, and as always congrats for your content!
Hi mate. That particular iron I was using is a crappy old one I've had for years. I wouldn't recommend it. the only I usually use is this: amzn.to/2Yx2atT
It was out of gas and I didn't have a refill can at home so I had to use my old one. lol
@@boostedmedia thanks a lot :)
I'm in series x and i need to put 3 or 4 gauges on my sim rig , i only need the illumination of the gauges what colors of the wires i need to connect ! I need also the red , black wires ? Or only the illumination one ? Or all 3 , black red and the illumination one ??
I am having trouble getting my tacho to even turn on. If I go straight from a 12 DC power supply, and connect that to the battery and ground wires on the tach, it should in theory just turn on right? Or do you specifically need the transistor for the power?
With the water temp gauge, which wire do you use to give the signal to from the arduino as there are two that come from the sensor
Eventually you'll be able to sell your Sim set up and get a fully loaded MX5 cup car racing program! 😁
Haha I actually sold an MX5 track car to build the sim.
Excelente trabajo.....y no importa si al arduino lo conectamos en puerto usb 3.1 o tiene q ser 2.0 digo porq las últimas maquinas bienes con 3.1 el usb..si funciona bien ugual?
Im doing this but adding a speedometer do i need to wire that with the bread board like the tach or like the othe gauges? Also adding volt gauge and oil pressure and fuel gauge
Hye. I’ve been following your guide to setup the tachometer. But it seems like the arduino did not receive the signal from the tacho. I’ve already manage to upload the board.
Do you run 3 separate grounds to the Ardunio from each gauge or just one say from the tach good enough to ground it out?
Hello friend, I would appreciate a video explaining the steps to make a speedometer and another for the fuel level, I have seen this video many times but since you put it in a box with switches I can't do it since my installation is simpler I would like to do it more Simple one arduino for the speed marker and another for the fuel one, I would deeply appreciate if you could make such a video since I can't find anyone on TH-cam. thank you.
would it work the same if i made this with an arduino uno? great project man i'm absolutely fascinated.
It would (I take it you tried by now). PWM pins behave the same across Arduino's, but some Arduino's have a higher default PWM frequency than others, and this will differ from pins as well from Arduino to Arduino.
I use a Mega for driving 8 gauges, 7 PWM ones driven through a BC547 transistor, and the speedometer directly through the tone(); function in the Arduino software (my setup is fully CustomProtocol, the type of thing in the video is not capable of being used for me).
Sorry if this is a daft question I couldn't find the same switches your using I randomly bought some that looked the same. They have arrived and are on on switches.... I didn't know that was a thing 😂 will they still work
They will still work, usually the center contact is the contact that one of each side connects to. In 1 position you can simply leave off a wire, and connect the other side, and it will function like a switch with an off-side.
I am fairly sure that's the type of switch used in this video as well, since it is the most common type.
And just a little hint: There's On-Off-On (3 positions, with the middle position latching and not connecting any side)
There's On-On-Off (3 positions, with the off-position not in the middle), you have Mom-On-Off, in which the On-position is springloaded and forces the switch back in the off-position upon releasing it.
You have Mom-on-off-mom-on, in which the middle position is latching, and the other two on both sides are springloaded (think of these types of switches for the type of switch that you can find in a car for electric windows going up or down, but remaining in the position upon releasing the switch).
And next to some of those configurations (there are more), you have pin configurations with 1 set of 3, 2 sets of 3, 3 sets of 3, sometimes up to 5 or 6 (though the switches tend to be bigger themselves as well).
In those configurations you can have isolated contacts, or the center contact can be bridged (not super common, but definitely an option).
Could I do the gauges like this with Project Cars 2 on Xbox one bc we can use button box’s and everything. I would like to have working gauges for project cars 2 on Xbox one
Ok I thank you but I see you hooked up 3 gauges can you more gauges because I’m building myself a semi dash and would like to use volt, temp, fuel, Primary psi, secondary psi oil temp just to start out and then add the remaining 9 gauges so in total 15 gauges.
For anyone else who might be wondering: unless you really go down the path of CustomProtocol and some pretty big messing around with non-PWM pins being switched on and off rapidly, you are limited to the amount of PWM pins on the Arduino being used for gauges.
Nice. Hows the room reno coming along?
Finished it about 30 mins ago. Just moving stuff in now. Will do an update video this weekend or early next week.
What do you think it cost you toys for your tachometer?
Hey I've got a 2017 gmc sierra speedometer I'm looking to hook it up with my xbox not sure how to do it I do have a arduino can someone help me wire it up
Were you able to overcome the issue with the limited boost gauge response due to voltage limit?
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Hey man, i'm looking to make something like this project to my Rig, but i don't understand 1 Thing !!!
There is no need to use diodes and transistors for the Temperature gauges and turbo gauges?
I think it is because in order to make the tacho work it needs an amplified signal from the arduino. I also think that is why he was having issues with the boost gauge - it may also need the signal amplified.
Curious as to why you have used water and not oil temperature?
As der as I’m aware Simhub only does water temp. Maybe I’m wrong.
hey have a question you can buy any meter and make it work the same way
No. If your gauge (like in my setup) is a standard panel style gauge or a galvo-style gauge, you will need to use CustomProtocol, because SimHub doesn't have the module for that preinstalled/loaded, nor does it (for as far as I know) exist.
Those types of gauges can be driven with a BC547 (depending on the gauge, obviously, if your current draw is higher you will need to use a stronger transistor) that you feed the PWM output, which is what I do for 7 of the gauges in my setup.
Will this work with a TIP121 as there are no TIP120 here.
Iv tried and it won't read the RPM is that my issue
Im having the same issues yet iv managed to find a tip120 and still wont work, iv tried 2 different diodes too a 12v 1w and a 12v 5w, and still wont work. Have you figured it out?
How long the shift beep will stay on for? I’ll give it the first 2 laps of any race 😂
Haha you can turn it off or adjust it higher and lower. But yeah I wouldn't normally have it going off constantly.
Off topic but how are you finding the advanced paddles and do they work well with f1 19?
Well they don't actually work properly with F1 2019, so.......... Otherwise I like them though. Covered in my review video I did on them.
can you only use the RPM gauge with the games in simhub or also the same that those pc games supported on disc? purchased in the store
No needs Simhub
@@boostedmedia oke thanks!
I have a 4 pin and a 2 pin cable. the 2pin is red and black which is the signal cable? it is a defi boost and temp gauge.
Hello
The same thing happens to me in the 2-pin cable, which is the signal cable, I don't know how it is connected so that the arduino gives a signal, have you solved it?
@@manuelabalromero4742 no
@@manuelabalromero4742 Hi, I have the 4 and 2 pin boost gauge myself. If you look at the electrical diagram, the left of the 2 pin is the signal wire. So the red wire.
Can a 12v5w diode be connected instead of 1w?
Yes. I am confused on why there's a diode needed in the first place, but that's just me. I thought it was meant to prevent flyback from the gauge (it would be in the wrong place because flyback should be prevented in the gauge as close to the part causing flyback spikes) but it seems that's not what it is supposed to do.
A higher wattage diode only means it will be able to handle a pretty massive amount of current through it, just as it's blocking voltage and current will be higher.
It might be that it's voltage drop is a bit higher as well, but that should not be the biggest issue here.
Because I don't know what this diode is meant to do precisely, I don't want to say that you can leave it out, nor would I like to suggest that you might be better off with a higher voltage (in case of flyback spikes you definitely would want to go higher than the supply voltage, since flyback spikes of a servo or a coil from a panel gauge can easily range up to 100V).
@@Dutch3DMaster hello, have you guys tried this project? i am really interested in wether the diode is essntial here too. Have u guys tried without it?
Does anyone have an issue with the temperature needle randomly moving back and forth?
If the temperature gauge uses the tone(); function in Arduino-land, it might be worth checking out if setting the range of the gauges in the Gauges setup to anything higher than 31.
I am not sure what the output is in that section and if it's translated by SimHub in the sketch tool, but the tone function on Arduino's can't go lower than 31 Hz, and will cause a gauge to do a little dance at it's lowest level.
My Kienzle 1318-27 speedometer does this, and uses tone(); instead of PWM.
What about a speedometer?
All I have is an Xbox and Logitech racing sim stuff. I can’t sadly do this since I don’t have a pc.
Ceaseless Gunner Yea sell your xbox then buy a pc :0
I have a 18 pin speedometer how could I connect it??
Probably you'd have to have some datasheet, along with knowledge of what to feed it. If it's a CAN-bus operated speedometer, I can only say: good luck.
CAN-Bus is manufacturer specific so the instructions required to fool the speedometer and make it think it's in a car are secret.
There are ways to find out what to use, but they can take weeks, because there's probably more than a thousand combinations.
all same?
Would this be possible on a Xbox 1?
No unfortunately.
Does this work with forza horizon 4 and have somebody tried it?
Can it works If i only put servo. I am poor. Olenköyhäsuomalainenmies.fi
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If you already have gauges on the screen why put more gauges around you makes no sense yes it looks cool but other than that it doesn’t make you win more races
Because some people enjoy building stuff.
Salut tres bonne vidéo !
J'ai déjà une jauge de turbo avec un Arduino je voulais savoir si la jauge de température fonctionnait sur Assetto Corsa ? Merci 😄