Universal Trip Computer FAQ

[adaxo]

Here is available for those who cant wait for GB
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Universal-...ht_7999wt_1336

[psbarham]

thomasz, it looks like I may be free this weekend to have a play.

[swinks]

OK, guys, just waiting for details from kaczart due to potential GB.
Re: mail service in Poland... I wouldn't recommend as much, hence my suggestion to have a GB and get ordered units by EMS courier.
Once get details of possible discounts and multiple shipping I'll post them here, then we can decide if we going for GB on proposed terms or individually.

[swinks]

thomasz, it looks like I may be free this weekend to have a play.

Have sent you a PM.

[swinks]

Got message with potential GB buy offer.

1. GB for 5 to 10 units of UKP
Unit price: 50 GBP
Shipping of ordered units: 30 GBP
2. GB for 10+ units
Unit price: 47 GBP
Shipping: 32 GBP

This is calculated based on PayPal payment including currency conversion fee taken by PayPal.

Kaczart agreed not to charge for different colours of display. As you know basic green is free of additional charge, other displays as subject to additional fee. Due to GB we can order any of display colours without extra fee.

USB cable is not included in GB.

Hope that explains a lot.

[swinks]

And some pictures of ready installed UKP:
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Note, that I didn't connect two additional temperature sensors (inside cabin and outside) because we have already those features built into climatronic panel. Anyway, displayed temps looks stupid, so I need to fit both sensors soon...

[jahooli]

are the buttons fully functional?

[foxdie]

Any chance of repurposing those temp sensor inputs to read other sensors? Boost / Oil Temp / Oil Pressure etc?

[swinks]

are the buttons fully functional?

Yes.
They are for switch between screens, input figures, and program ones.

[swinks]

Any chance of repurposing those temp sensor inputs to read other sensors? Boost / Oil Temp / Oil Pressure etc?

Nope.
There two dedicated inputs for temp sensors based on termistors, so there are 2x (ground, feed, signal). Also there is one output dedicated for analog temp sender (used i.e. for oil or water temp) you can utilize. In my UKP I disabled this one.

[Nutter_John]

Use the two temp readings for the y pipe ( turbo out) and on the tb to see how good your intercooler is doing

Can this unit store the data to a card like a datalogger ?

[swinks]

I like your idea John!
Well icons on display may be inaccurate then...

No, I don't think there is any datalogging in our expectation. It stores some data but it's more mileage and fuel consumption purpose. So.. my answer is NO.

Oh... forget to mention. Black display has poor refreshing ratio, so it appears some 1 second delay with displaying afr and vac/boost figures. Apparently, basic green display has good refreshing ratio, and maybe white one. Obviously green display will look awkward in vr4, so I'm gonna give a try to white display soon.

[foxdie]

Oh... forget to mention. Black display has poor refreshing ratio, so it appears some 1 second delay with displaying afr and vac/boost figures. Apparently, basic green display has good refreshing ratio, and maybe white one. Obviously green display will look awkward in vr4, so I'm gonna give a try to white display soon.

Crap, you would tell me that after I ordered 2 black ones (oh my! )

[swinks]

I have black display and I'm not whingeing... You can live with that!
Anyway, I had to give a try to find out this issue.

[Davezj]

i would have thlught you could put a coloured lens in front of the dispaly and change colour that way, but it ia an LCD display and not an LED display so bright and dark are reversed.
a coloured lens might obscure the display too much. we will have to wait and see. but the white display would brobably respond the best to a coloured lens.

[Davezj]

Got message with potential GB buy offer.

1. GB for 5 to 10 units of UKP
Unit price: 50 GBP
Shipping of ordered units: 30 GBP
2. GB for 10+ units
Unit price: 47 GBP
Shipping: 32 GBP

This is calculated based on PayPal payment including currency conversion fee taken by PayPal.

Kaczart agreed not to charge for different colours of display. As you know basic green is free of additional charge, other displays as subject to additional fee. Due to GB we can order any of display colours without extra fee.

USB cable is not included in GB.

Hope that explains a lot.

so the final price would be for a 10 off would be £47 + a tenth of £32 for p+p =£50.20 each
is this correct?

[swinks]

Yes, Dave.

[LudviG]

If there going to be a group buy of these I am interested for sure, and would gladly pay for someone to fit it in the a galant clock for me. Since i have a EUDM N/A galant, i really don't need the mods u guys need.

[jahooli]

Can we have a complete list of what this will monitor and display?
Is the LPG option any more expensive or difficult to fit?

thanks

[swinks]

Here is briefly description what is displayed:

- vehicle speed ([km/h] or [mph]),

- current fuel consumption ([l/h] and [l/100km] or [gph - galons per hour] and [mpg]),

- average fule consumption ([l/100km] or [mpg]),

- recent trip distance (from fuelling/reset),

- total distance,

- amount of fuel in a tank (or tanks, if vehicle converted to LPG),

- day trip computer (trip time, average speed, max speed, distance, average fuel consumption),

- LPG "on" indication (petrol/lpg mode indication; independent petrol/lpg trip calculations),

- date and time,

- ambient temperature outside and inside vehicle,

- analog input from temperature sender, i.e. coolant, oil (can be used in ngine block, coolant system, etc.)

- acceleration measurements (auto mode) plus customer defined scale (i.e 0-100, 60-120, 0-120 km/h etc.),

- two analog 0-5v inputs for i.e.: wideband, tps and map sensor (with making graphs on display)

- customer defined wideband afr input (equation)

- customer defined map input (equation) displayed in BAR or PSI,

- radiator fans status signalization,

- "lights on" reminder (for countries where daylights are required 24/7), lights activated with speed above 10km/h,

- servicing reminder (customer defined intervals),

- battery voltage display,

Also it has following functions:

- black ice warning,

- overheating warning defined by customer (with analog tem input from sender),

- predefined switchable displays plus customer defined additional display,

- each display shows 4 figures (2 main and 2 small)

- activation or deactivation of predefined displays,

- switchable units (imperial or continental),

- English/Polish menu,

- user defined "welcome" starting display,

- user defined font size

- user defined display brightness,

- Win XP/Vista/7 application for programming and flashing UTC via USB (download from manufacturer website, you will need NET.Framework 4.0),

UTC is working with vehicles with LPG, it does separate calculations for either petrol or lpg, displays for each are switchable.