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Old 02-26-2010 | 06:33 AM
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Default RE: Digitech Jetcat Information Screen Project!


ORIGINAL: olnico

Hi Carsten,

The screen is changing a bit too fast in idle mode. Could you make each screen stay for 1/2 a second longer, this to be able to take note of the data ?

Could you have two screen options available ?

One with auto screen loop as seen on the video
One with manual screen change (when activating the small push button on the control board) ?

That way, people who don't want all the detailed data just get the main screens but still have the possibility to browse through the screens by pushing the small button.

Also, in idle mode could you have the turbine state displayed on the lower left corner?
This way people could have all the information available on the I/O board and get rid of it. ( in case programming would be required, we could disconnect the data cable from the control board and plug the GSU in )

The idle display would look like this:
Temp......Bat
State.......Off cond

and the start display like this:
Temp.....Bat
State.....Current RPM

So you'd have only one data changing between the two sequences.

Also Sandor, make sure that you'll give a long ribbon length for people who want to install the screen far away from the board ( maybe one meter ?)

Oliver, I changed the time between the screens in idle, you were right, that was too fast.
The idea with the button is also a nice one, I'll consider making that user-selectable
However, I don't quite follow the idea having the state shown in idle mode, it is always the same (slowdown), so not much use ?
And the off-condition can be pretty long text (f.ex "AcclTimeOut"), and there would only be 7 chars left for that one