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Originally Posted by jkuchta
My soldering abilities are good enough to connect wires, but not good enough to populate a board. What would one cost assembled (I can wire the thing into the car)?
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As beta test consumer I might be able to cost it low. The biggest problem is the BS2 chip costs $50. I need to re-prototype this project using the new Parallax Propeller chip since they just dropped the cost to $7.95. The propeller has so many beans you could put the entire Toyota engine management code on it if they would let you have a copy. The parts at-cost is roughly $80 without display LED's AND you'd want me to load the program into the BS2 EEPROM for you too. It is a neat integrated prototype though and cops always ask what it is because when the key is on and the motor dead the display chases left to right and right to left like the original KIT. The cops have to know its not an illegal mobile police scanner. They give it a thumbs up. In a Propeller version I would integrate the dash dimmer control into the unit.
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Last edited by metalshark; 04-02-2009 at 06:31 PM.
Reason: Inclusion of ball-park costing SWAG.
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04-02-2009, 06:22 PM
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