Miles Per Gallon and Trip Computer

[doctorDHD@xxxx]

That question was asked my me, Dave and 6530. I have ben working on a 
driving computer for my Delorean. It started out to be a project built around an 
HP Jornada 680 handheld computer with a 1/2 vga screen and the Dataq DI-194RS 
data acquisition kit. I actually got the two interfaced and was able to 
display the cars battery voltage on the screen. The problem, it seems was that the 
680 was too slow. I have since shelved the idea untill I can afford to buya 
7" vga LCD monitor which I will connect to a mini-ITX computer. Since it 
will be programmed in Visual Basic as oppossed to VB for WindowsCE, the operating 
system for the 680, I think it will be much easier. The least expensive vga 
monitor for the car was about $450. It seems that now there are ones on Ebay 
for $240 so my interest has peaked again. Distance, and thus speed data was 
to be obtained from 10 magnets attached to the inner hub of the transmission 
and a magnetic sensor attached to the transmission itself. The big problemwas 
measuring fuel flow. I still haven't figured out a real reasonable (meaning 
inexpensive) was to do it. I haven't seen last months Nuts and Volts so I 
don't know if anyone came up with any new ideas. If anyone else is interested in 
this project please contact me. doctorDHD(AT)aol.com


Message: 10
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:33:28 -0600
From: Robert Brandys <BobB@xxxx>
Subject: Re: Mileage

Last month's issue of Nuts and Volts magazine had an article about 
putting a mile per gallon gauge into a Delorean. The article covered 
about 2/3 of a page. The question was posed by a Delorean owner. 

My question is who asked the question?

BOB

Thank you,

Dave

ps Please take a look at my invention at www.tvpedaler.com and let me know 
what you think.