WishfulThinking

My remote display is located on the dash. It also houses the LED for my Lidatek LE-30, in place of the mute button.

<b>Making the remote display</b>

The remote display installation required the following:
- remove remote display's housing
- remove/desolder RJ-11 jack from remote display PCB
- remove mute button
- solder a 10-wire ribbon cable directly to the RJ-11's pads on the remote display PCB
- 6 conductors for the RJ-11 (in reality, I only needed the middle 4 since outer 2 are unused)
- 2 conductors for mute button, soldered to mute button's vias
- 2 conductors for Lidatek LED, each soldered to one of the pads that were used for the sides of the old RJ-11 jack
- mount a dual-color LED for the Lidatek onto a black screw cap, then attach it to the front face of the remote display

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<i>Sorry, no detailed pics of the ribbon cable (yet, stay tuned)</i>

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<b>Making and installing the mute button</b>

I soldered a momentary switch to the end of an RJ-11 cable. I attached it to my turn signal using 2 zap straps and double sided tape. Below are pics when I was testing out the position of the button. I've since removed the zap strap and the red/white parts of the tape; it looks really discreet now.

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<b>Making my custom remote display adaptor</b>

I had to make an adaptor that would bridge together the ribbon cable, the V1's hardwire remote display port, and my mute button. So I epoxied together 2 RJ-11 sockets and a ribbon cable plug together, then soldered wires between them all. One of these RJ-11 sockets basically is an extension of the one that was originally on the remote display's PCB. The other is for the mute button.

<i>Sorry, no pics</i>

<b>Installing the remote display</b>

I pulled off the dash piece right above the steering column, and taped the remote display to it. I used hockey tape and it seems to perform much better than duct tape or electrical tape. After reinstalling the dash piece with the remote display attached, I wedged a tiny piece of foam behind the display and the dash to keep the display in place.

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Note: My V1 is in the usual location, hardwired above the left side of the rear view mirror.

To do: Make an interior-matching enclosure for the V1; I envison that it'll attach to the ceiling via removing the mini-sunshade and reusing the screwhole. Then it'll be totally stealth Anyone know how/where I can get fabric to match the interior (beige)?

Note: I grabbed the mute button idea off of someone else's post (can't remember who)

To do: Install the Lidatek. <i>Update</i> Lidatek installed!


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SlowWagon08

you're on a mission aren't ya!

audimods

not bad

MB The Body

That's really cool !