entranceAutomotive receiver combined with an on-board computer. Side computers for budget cars: compare six models
Any digital device seemed to us with a computer - even a primitive tachometer with two diquses. And how many computers are installed in the middle hand? The case is already going to a hundred ... Moreover, the possibilities of the modern smartphone are noticeably superior to the potential of the computer of the Marshode Curiosity, which is just five years old.
And what do not know how to make regular side computers? Cancel your fingers. They will never call you the error codes of the engine control systems, automatic box, doors or glasses. They rarely show the engine temperature, middle speed, time in the way or overclocking dynamics to hundreds, and also do not like to memorize the errors. In addition, many drivers need emergency alarms that control the temperature, engine turnover, speed.
Owners, their requests - to take at least two types of fuel consumption. Someone needs to automatically turn on the headlights on the speed sensor signal or the connection of parking sensors with a customizable sensitivity. In some cases, the compulsory turning on the cooling system fan can be useful. Someone wants to more accurately configure the fuel level sensor in the tank. Different reminders are forgetful will help - warning about non-examined overall lights, about ice on the road or need to pass the next one. Many love ordinary toys - gallops ("Hello, Host!"). Extremes may need a wheel slip indicator. And there is also such a function as a taximeter ...
We decided to test, suitable for budget vehicles. The possibilities of various devices selected for the study, but the more interesting.
| Approximate price of 9800 rubles. Universal onboard computer, which we installed on the torpedo. Such a device, due to solid sizes, is more suitable for large cars. Buttons are also large, it is convenient to use. And the color is rather big. In addition to all standard features, including the Parktronic Connection, the device allows you to control the temperature and read error codes or variator on many cars. It can work with gas translated machines, providing accurate indicators of alternative fuel consumption. | Approximate price 1580 rub. Compact device, rather even miniature. This is well located in the nest for the button on the instrument panel of Samara 2, grant, viburnum, prior or. It supplies with the almost the same information as larger devices, but the representation of the parameters (on a modest three-digit display) is much less convenient. There is no sound synthesizer. Programming is difficult: buttons are only two! You can install on foreign cars if you find a suitable place. We believe that cars are especially useful, which does not have a regular indication of a important parameter, for example, the temperature of the coolant or engine revolutions. |
| Approximate price is 5670 rubles. Unusual type The device perfectly fits into all cars with round ventilation system deflectors. Including in which we checked it. There are other models designed to be installed in the Chevrolet Niva car panel, Gazelle Business, UAZ Patriot, VAZ-2110. The functionality and the number of protocols supported by the board computers are maximum for a particular car. The devices of the family with voice accompaniment, and the SL family - no. Indicates oil temperature in automatic gearboxes of some models. The firmware is updated when connecting an on-board computer with stationary via a USB cable. | Approximate price 5050 rubles. An unusual type of device has no display - a smartphone had to use for testing. The device has placed under the panel, because it has nothing to do outside. And this is good - not a vintage eye. Information is displayed on the screen associated via the protocol Bluetooth smartphone or tablet on the Android platform. The program was downloaded from the manufacturer's website. Firmware update - through a smartphone or laptop. I liked that the device saves the data of all trips regardless of whether it is with mobile device or not. You can send an error log to a hundred - also through a smartphone, although we did not check. Minus is obvious: an additional gadget is needed (smartphone). |
| Approximate price 5510 rub. It is installed on the front panel or attached to the windshield. Display monochrome. This is suitable primarily on the VAZ and UAZ, but in principle it is capable of connecting through the OBD-II cable and with some foreign cars released after 2001. Supports original diagnostic protocols of some models. Specify compatibility will help the site www.microline.ru | Approximate price of 3900 rubles. The place of production of this instrument with a graphic monochrome display is tolyatti, and it is obvious that it is most adapted to VAZ cars. We installed it on the front panel, although you can fix it to the windshield. The instructions say that the device is compatible with the control blocks not only cars VAZ, but also gas, as well as foreign cars, but only according to the standard OBD-II protocol. The firmware is installed with an SD card. The device can separately calculate the parameters of the car in gasoline and gas. |
- trip parameters: travel time, mileage, current and average speed, instantaneous and average consumption, fuel residue in the tank, ambient temperature, trip cost;
- current Engine Operations: Pressure Pipeline, Fuel Pressure in Mainer, Injection Duration, Outlet Pressure from Compressor, Mass Air Flow, Oxygen Sensor Voltage, Crankshaft Rotation Rotation, Throttle Position, Gas Podal position, Instant Fuel Penching, Calculated load on the engine, the temperature of the coolant;
- error settings: ECU errors, reset and error record;
- parking Parameters (Some devices turn their screen into a full-fledged parking sensor display).
And most instruments have a voice warning about the output of controlled parameters from the specified range.
It seemed to us that the most interesting option in the presented company of computers is Multitronics MRC-800. Mainly because such a device with worthy "brains" does not urge the interior of the car, because it hides somewhere inside, placing "representative" functions on the smartphone of the owner. For many, this may be a decisive factor when choosing a device.
| If you decide to buy a route computer, we advise you to estimate it with its placement and connection. A variant that we for the jokes have captured on the title frame, not so unreal. Very often, various additional devices instead of use bring harm: blocked, fall off due to a sloping attachment, and sometimes they are at all deprived of the opportunity to use the full-time equipment of the machine. For example, deciding to purchase a nice round device placed instead of a deflector, do not forget that at the same time you lose this deflector! Another example: Many cars (for example, at the Logan family) the OBD connector to which such computers are connected in the middle of the glove box. The decision is not the best: uncomfortable to drag the wiring harness to this connector. However, if you refer yourself to the sleeve, you will definitely find a convenient solution. Not sure - contact the installers: they quickly plunder what to look for what it will look. A separate advice to those whose eyesight leaves much to be desired. Ensure that when managing the machine readings of a small-sized display will be readable for you. Otherwise you have to navigate only on the voice prompts of the computer, which immediately changes the guidelines when choosing it. Happy way - and hello to computers! |
Editors:
This is an application for new rubric. If you read the chief editor's column in this room, you know that it means its name. The leading heading was just appointed by order - Artyom Bogdanov. For the first time, his name-surname appeared on our pages in 2006. Then - in the heading "own game". Theme is an audio system in the VAZ-2111 based on the computer. The next appearance was in 2008. Already in the "Systems" heading. The topic is an audio system in Honda NSX on the basis of ... computer, of course. The name of the author has not changed, the status has changed - the head of the Digital Car Studio.
The functionality of the system has changed, the term "audio" came to her already badly. Sport another - infotainment. The very "new word". Three years have passed since then, and now Artem again with us, this time - on a regular basis. In the materials of this category, it will consistently reveal different aspects of the answer to the same question: "How to teach the car to do everything?" For such a practical essence is the true meaning of the new word: everything. From music to Skype with all stops.
Start the same series of its publications Artyom decided with an explanation, about what, in fact, it will be discussed. And why. However, why - we know. Because the XXI century circle. And for quite a long time ...
Rigidobil
Vinyl ... and here vinyl? I'll explain now. Sweet word for Melomanana, I thought, going through the fragments of the Armstrong record found. Running the younger brother just grinned and "broke" the next album on his pocket MP3 player. So happen ...
It is no secret that everything (I will not beat the Purist's wrath). Modern audio and video media are recorded using a computer. Why not to reproduce the same PC, passing out of uncomfortable media? Do not limit yourself in either formats, nor in the volume of favorite records. This idea probably came at least once every reader of these lines. But the music, whatever eternal, it is not part of our life (otherwise why would we need a car?). Why not add navigation, video recordings, loud connection, mail and internet that originally live in a computer, no one suggests them for them?
The described Mizanszen with Armstrong and the younger brother happened long ago, I have long come to the logical conclusion that followed him. There were attempts to make friends the car (which was then) with a computer (which were then), one, quite successful for his time, served as the basis for my first publication in Az ("Project Century", №8 / 2006).
Subsequently, it turned out that in this idea I am not alone. At first there was a club of lovers, a professional installation studio of automotive computers appeared later. The leitmotif of the installations of this type is impossible, the limit of the functionality of the system determines only the fantasy of the customer. However, it is this fantasy that we still divide. The modern customer does not compromise and wants to obtain a maximum of functions from the newly acquired system, and it is not ready to put up with any asophony or with a mediocre image, nor with chaos of wires and boxes in the trunk. And the least - with a shortage in the car of any functions, opportunities or amenities, to which he is used. Or just about the existence of which he knows.
What distinguishes carpc from other head devices? First, of course, a special shell program for convenient finger control. Naturally, variable and customizable. Secondly, no limited choice of functional software.
Here is an example: the most modern (according to the manufacturers and the part of the public, which you managed to convince) multimedia-navigation headsets are "charged" by some single navigation program, less often - it is proposed (about a miracle!) Selection of two.
Now the navigation programs operating in Russia, I counted more than ten, with "traffic jams" and without, with 3D or without 3D from high-resolution graphics before aesthetics of a card with a pack of "Whiteor". In the CARPC environment, you do not need to choose in advance: everything is immediately loaded, you can use anyone else, if you do not need, lie on the disk, bread does not ask ...
Thirdly, omnivorous. Modern civilization gave rise to an insane amount of information storage formats. The Car Audio industry masters them with creak, one in a few years. Starting all the formats and carriers with which Carpc will cope with, we risk learning far beyond the sciences of the pages generously in the magazine and for sure to bite the neighboring headings at the Near-Namestore shop. Here are the most common sound formats: MP3, WAV, APE, FLAC. The first take all the "Magnitols with the disk", the second is only some, the third and fourth, highly appreciated in our time - not one. With the video - more than the Pestre. Once, shopping deeper in the "codecs" system, found a bunch of formats that heard for the first time. Total about 400. Needed? Will ... at the same time reproduction different formats does not mean changing media or switching settings from the remote controls. Just one click on the touch screen.
The unique feature of CARPC is unlimited, total compatibility with any periphery. Flashki, portable hard drives, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi adapters, modems to access the Internet, TV tuners, cameras, diagnostic adapters, joysticks, keyboards, and even printers or cash registers - are connected via USB and ... work without asking extra questions.
Many famous brands still removed the tempting direction of the automotive computers, and I think it is the versatility and the livestock compatibility that soon scared them soon, and the CARPC directions turned out to be coarse.
It was they who rooted in our heads of axiom "good multimedia combine can not be cheap." And each additional feature must certainly fly into a penny and not have alternative options implementation. Only an expensive adapter or navi block with the same label as "head". Sometime, such a game was started with CD-changer, and I suppose, it was because of this that the chandzhers first stopped developing, and then they left the scene at all. A few years earlier than could ...
The computer due to massability received undeniable advantages over potential competitors: the usability and clearerness of the interface, limitless functionality and ... Price. Reverse side of mass. Practice has shown: collecting a set of independently, for the amount of 1000 trips to the subway, you can get expandable in the future information and entertainment combine with access to the Internet and all office applications. Then the most infotainment ...
What tasks are necessary (or rather, you have to, all there will be there, I have no doubt for a second) to decide during the integration of the multifunctional computer complex in the car? Later about the details and underwater stones of each we will speak separately, now - in general terms.
At one of the first places in importance - organically and ergonomically (now widespread concepts) to introduce the main detail of the system - touch screen. Here are already starting to appear ready-made solutions Plug & Play: consoles, visors and transition frames and even 2din options.
Why not a laptop or tablet computer? - you ask.
Broken glass or derated castle - I tell you. - Maybe someone likes it. Most - not very. Control experiment (for your account): put the iPhone on the torpedo and depart at a distance of 100 meters.
Yes, and without this inhuman experience, it is clear: much more convenient and more pleasant when you start the car, and after a few seconds the system is independently launched and already welcomes you with a pleasant eye interface. No wires, connections, charging, "cigarette lighters" and power buttons. And no cards of the permanent buyer of the shop "The World of Autogle".
After all, the undoubted plus of a competently integrated system is completely "regular" design. Feel the idea: no luminous buttons, labels and removable panels - only the screen on the panel, as if registered there from the factory or at least the monolith in the central console, will not cause any thoughts to rejuvenate at the thoroughtry. In this form, it is not even, but the item ...
We came to the most interesting for a considerable part of readers committed by eternal values. And how does the "digurist" sound? As a rule, already in the basic version of all systems based on the CAR PC, there is a built-in 24-bit sound card. Some parts of users it turns out to be enough. If not enough - it does not matter, with this map no one in the registry office signed. Tsaki Texas Instruments and Burr-Brown, installed in external "soundblasters" - this is already something. Numerous experiments have shown: on CARPC you can make a high-class audio system, not to mention the multimedia - complex, cinema, with a volume sound. But despite the functionality sound cardsMore interestingly, the bundle of a computer and an external specialty sound processor with a digital SPDIF bus (optics or coaxial). This scheme allows you to "unload" cPU From "thin matters" sound. With all the commitment of our "club" computer technology And the constituent must be recognized: the best results are achieved on this path, so that traditional CAR Audio manufacturers even at the total transition to CARPC will not be left not to cases. Meaning, of course, the most progressive of them. At the same time, by the way, sometimes in the system is established enviable, unattainable in traditional systems Harmony and mutual understanding of components when the processor (for example, Audison Bit One, very well-fitted in the InfoTainment-system architecture) is configured from "your", on-board computer.
Another task is to control (in the simplest case - replenishment) the library in the automotive computer is becoming easier and more convenient than in any other environment. Elementary, on the verge of a primitive, to carry with you flash drives, but it is no longer up with the times if you can synchronize with the Wi-Fi home collection in almost the "unmanned" mode.
An important feature of a full-fledged automotive computer is the possibility of a phased partial upgrade. Lack of five hundred gigabytes for a matured musical collection? Put a disk for a pair terabyte. Upon first, enough, and there will be visible. Want to connect several cameras of the video recorder? How much to put in pieces? The processor is more powerful - please, gas welding works will not be required. Gathered to conquer by car Yakutia and sugar in one navigation? Solid-state hDD To help you - neither heating or moving parts.
Modern automakers "sing" in unison with the manufacturers of expensive radio tape recorder: digital tires - each of their own, protocols are unique. Here, the installers of advancements as it comes to the leg. And the "digurist" in such a situation is one of the universal funds to avoid the collision of desire and opportunities. Few develop the matching periphery for CARPC, but now there are several adapters, in particular, to full-time Audi, Lexus, Toyota monitors. The precedents of the seizure of full-time monitors and installations on their place of new, sensory, computer (VGA / HDMI), high resolution, with the output on their on-board information.
Since I started my first digurist, seven years have passed. There were meetings and partitions with the machines. Combined them one - in all the car computers stood. In this, my tastes definitely have not changed. And with each of our next meeting, your will be closer to mine, I am sure ...
Integral Studio Solution for VW Cars
Not a sound one ... Carpc can diagnose a car in simple mode ...
... maybe in advance ...
... or special, such as monitoring the work of the relay block
Equalizer can be organized and software CARPC, but we came to the conclusion that the external processor is better
The "new word" may appear in the scattering machine of individual blocks ...
... among which there is still a main, systemic
What if your display is not in the car? Here is an example: Toyota LC 100 before you visited us, and after
Examples of infotainment systems in different machines: Landrover Discovery 3 with a large ceiling monitor at the driver
The monitor is even more, but the passenger is Mercedes S500
Volvo XC90, screen - in "Domik"
Also the screen, also a house, but the car is IS 250 (I do not remember the brand)
Subaru Tribeca. Here the house does not need
Carpc penetration into the inner world of the car: VW Golf instrument cluster display
Exercise options for "advanced" display to work with carpc
Navigation systems There are more than it is placed on the navigation mode title screen. From three-dimensional graphics to "Tutu" Whiteor "
The spectrum of peripherals is limited only by the fantasy (and therefore - nothing). From keyboard to analog regulators
Unlimited freedom provide software shells. Like "windows 7" - please. Do not like - also please ...
Automotive on-board computers running Windows XP Tablet Edition can be divided into two groups: ready-made ("factory") solutions and self-assembly options.
With the latest things, it is as follows: you find a 7- or even a 9-inch display and place it in a 2DIN connector on the front panel (although you can erupt and equip a remote monitor), after connecting the miniature system block of miniatx or microatx formats, which can Locate ... And here is the first serious problem - where to find a place for the system unit: well, if you have an SUV (or just a big car), where spaces in the cabin have enough; And if it is a small car where you have to sit "in the wipe"? So for the second case there is an option: Buy the usual UMPC like ASUS R2H with a GPS module and touch display, fasten it in the cabin (after installing a specialized type of check-engine) and get not "just on-board computer", but "Route on-board multimedia computer" (where there will be: navigator, audio and video function). It will cost about $ 1200.
If you do not feel like a well-skilled master, you can choose a ready-made solution (for example Hiinfo or Giantec). The design of such side computers inspires confidence - what is just worth factory defense from vibrations and built-in system unit (For which you do not need to look for a place in the cabin). Here again two options are possible (depending on the design of Torpedo):
- If there is a 1DIN connector on the torpedo, we recommend paying attention to the Giantec VCP2500 model. They look like a regular radio with a slot for CD / DVDs, but 3-inch hard drives are hidden inside their enclosures (40-60 GB), planks random access memory (512 MB) and processors of family Celeron M or Pentium M. And the front panels, of course, are "decorated with" USB ports, card readers and PCMCIA connectors.
As for the displays - they are supplied in the kit or sold separately (which makes it possible to select the matrix of the required size and brightness). - But 2DIN solutions look more attractive and better fit into the interior of the car. In addition, you will not need to buy a display, which then you will also need to be successfully placed / secured. However, the diagonal of the displays, which are equipped with such side computers, is limited to 7 or 9 inches - this does not always have enough demanding car owner going to work with Windows OS.
The rest of the functionality of 2DIN-computers is slightly lower (due to the screens that occupy almost the entire surface of the front panel, so there are less common PCMCIA slots and USB ports). However, for a full-fledged automotive on-board computer, this is not a problem - you can display a USB port using the extension player where it will be needed.
Of course, a good car computer is simply obliged to be equipped with bluetooth modulethat will allow you to connect the mouse, keyboard, wireless headphones And even an external GPS receiver.
In conclusion, I would like to note that, with a competent approach, the onboard computers work out the funds spent on them - at least due to fuel economy. Another thing is that not all car owners perceive the on-board computer as a necessary element of the car, considering it an unnecessary expensive toy. Here you can only say - "do not argue about tastes", in the sense of "every point of view has the right to life." To someone, for example, we are more familiar to consider fuel consumption by recording in a notebook (after each trip) of the sensor indicators, and the engine condition determines "on the hearing".
With the help of an on-board computer, the driver can comprehensively evaluate a wide variety of indicators: engine turnover and its temperature, vehicle speed, air temperature inside and outside the cabin, fuel consumption and voltage. A detailed analysis of all occurring processes allows you to respond quickly to malfunctions and instantly determine their degree.
In addition to the diagnosis, the on-board computer can perform the role of parking attitudes, the route planning assistant with the calculation of the amount of gasoline and speed, save all system events in memory. Side computers having a display and tuner are capable of serve as a radio or television.
On-board computer - for those who watch their car
Install the on-board computer in your car dreams every car owner, because this device is functional and perfectly helps in managing and maintaining the machine. Here are some of the main possibilities of the on-board computer.
- Displays instantaneous parameters. These include the speed of the machine, the current time, the temperature of the engine, the motor turnover, the temperature outside the window and in the cabin, the remainder of fuel in the tank and so on. Also, all the information obtained from the main sensors is displayed.
- Display of route parameters. Each car computer allows you to get information about a kilometer of the trip, its exact time and the number of gasoline, which was spent on it. In addition, information is displayed on how much fuel is 100 km away, about the speed of movement and so on.
- Problem control. The automotive route computer displays the alarm signals on the display if there are any faults in the machine or some item is required to urgently fix or replace. Be sure to display data on the status of filters, candles and but oil levels.
In a word, the onboard route computer allows you to operate a car with high comfort and safety. That is why he is so in demand and popular.
You can buy a route computer in our online store "220 Volt". We offer you a rich assortment. Here you will find such devices from the most different manufacturers, including Multitronics. They are represented as budget models and more expensive.