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Top link dosent work ...

The ffc cable you are ordering could do with being longer ..read the post again ...i explain why

Dunno the dimentions without measuring ...as long as your parts fit in there it will be ok
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wiggs which one is the longer cable? I cannot find it at that http://www.toby.co.uk/
place Where can I get one? sorry for being a pain the ass, but I dont know crap about these parts at all. appreciate all the help you have done so far, serriously.

Will any solder work? I've soldered about 5 times in my life
  
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Got some from here http://www.toby.co.uk/

You cant get 4 way connectors longer than 150mm ( well i cant find any ) so i got 16 way .I then cut a section of 4 wires ( leaving me another 3 attempts if i fooked up ..but all was well)

I ordered some 300mm one's and 420mm ones , but found the 300mm ones to be ideal

AXO-01264 ( 300MM - 16 WAY)
AXO-01289 ( 420MM - 16 WAY)

You could just get a 6 way wire and cut of 2 of them ..but i thought it best to have some spare in case of disaster
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Any solder should do ...

Why dont you take the wiring diagram into a local electronics store ..im sure they (or they will know someone ) would make it up .

Trust me its a real pain ..the wires are tiny ..so are the connectors .

Someone who does it for a living would be able to knock one up in no time ..they will have all the right stuff

As long as the 2 ffc cables are the 1mm pitch (4 core) at the ends were it connects to the screen the rest can be any size .
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wiggs wrote:
Got some from here http://www.toby.co.uk/

You cant get 4 way connectors longer than 150mm ( well i cant find any ) so i got 16 way .I then cut a section of 4 wires ( leaving me another 3 attempts if i fooked up ..but all was well)

I ordered some 300mm one's and 420mm ones , but found the 300mm ones to be ideal

AXO-01264 ( 300MM - 16 WAY)
AXO-01289 ( 420MM - 16 WAY)

You could just get a 6 way wire and cut of 2 of them ..but i thought it best to have some spare in case of disaster


oh ok, I already bought the 300m already from them, I just didnt post them with the other stores order. cool thanks
  
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Just brilliant Wiggs!!! Bow down Bow down Bow down
 I'm not so good at giving advice...may I offer you a sarcastic comment instead?

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sideview wrote:
Just brilliant Wiggs!!! Bow down Bow down Bow down


No Censored , all of a suddon this mod has blown up. There are about 3 of us doing them and one person already has, suprisingly he never knew about your post and did the same mod.

http://rangerovers.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=5
  
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wiggs wrote:
...Any solder should do...
Not wishing to cast any aspersions but I once gave this exact advice to someone, and they used plumbers solder. Oh, and a plumbers 400W soldering iron. The resulting circuit board wasn't pretty; imagine if you will a 2"x2" board, charred, bowed, and with one single dry joint covering the entire back and you'll see why I thought I'd mention it.

Can I suggest that any electronics grade solder will do instead Whistle
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Good point ...but as we were talking little electronic bits ..i presumed he would of asked for something sutible
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Me too Wiggs; I had made the same assumption Rolling with laughter OK, so I can't see anyone else ever doing it again but I thought I'd mention it just to be sure.

Off Topic
So when are you going to link your car PC to the can-bus, register it as a new node and start controlling car components that way? You've gone soooo far in your setup (i'm well envious!) you must be looking for new challenges by now Smile
First off; when the alarm is set, send close window commands to the four windows + sunroof Thumbs Up
Challenge includes discovering whether windows are low speed CANbus, LINbus or direct current controlled Smile
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Im on with a few other things at the moment ..still not got the pc up and running yet as im still waiting for the VGA interface ..i may have to get one of them off ebay ....if my other ever turns up then sell that one !!!

Pc to can bus sounds interesting Thumbs Up
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There is a guy here in the US that sells them. you're talking about these right? http://rangerovers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=28173

Or this

http://rangerovers.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28422
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Yeah I was thinking about the mall electronic solder, I just wasnt sure if there was a certain type. I'm not doing plumbing work so I can put two and two together... Come on I'm that much of a novice. Razz
  
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No not them ..want one with a VGA input ...i have had 2 faulty ones before Sad

All 3 of them ones your on about are sold anyway
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Wiggs do I need one of those GVIF interfaces to get the video on the screen?

http://www.gnetcanada.com/navvideo-models-...er%20Sport

This look like a good way to get free internet. You just slide your sim card into it and then plug it into the USB
  
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If your just using a composite out of your pc and you dont want to add other AV sources ..you can connect direct to the sat nav screen and use the diagnostics menu to view the picture ..you will need some connectors like this

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic6915.ht...p;start=15

Or get a GVIF interface but get one with a VGA input ..like this

http://www.disco3.co.uk/forum/topic27833.html
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