Auber Gauges

[kiwipete]

Hi all, I am about to order a set of three Auber gauges for my truck for EGT, Boost and AT Oil temp. They will be mounted in their factory cases and placed on top of my dash board towards the far right. I will use some VHB double sided tape to secure them.

I was wondering what colour gauges those of you who have bought are using and how visible they are at night/day? I'm thinking of the blue ones but wonder if they might be too much of an "in your face colour"?

PS, I have to mount them on top of the dash as I have no other spare space suitable, except for a warning light/buzzer.

[stovanovich]

My gauges & Dash lights in the Terrano are all blue. Nice cool colour that's bright yet easy on the eyes. (Look pretty fly in the D21 dash too )

[stovanovich]

The picture aint the best but it'll give you a little idea (this is before I installed my 2nd Gauge)

[wjw]

Hey Pete, have sent you a text, I just got another one thats not installed yet. You could borrow and try in your truck, just needs 12V to get the display to go.

[tomsoffroad]

I've got a blue egt gauge in the daily driver Surf. Bit hard to see if the sun is over your shoulder but all in all its fine.
I've also got a red egt gauge in the 60 which is easy to see.
A couple of weeks ago I also ordered a green boost, blue water temp and amber oil pressure gauges. Temped to order another egt guage and use it as an inlet temp gauge. The old 60 should be like a fricken Christmas tree

Now to wait for the mail man......................................

[lax2wlg]

I'm using the amber/orange one, no visibility issues


Below that is an inexpensive digital voltmeter I got from mrpositive.co.nz

I don't bother with a permanently set up boost gauge

[Twodiffs]

Daytime.



And at night..easy to see and not too bright.

[kiwipete]

Daytime.

Did you go for different colours to make it easier to distinguish between them at a glance?

[d_b]

i've got 3 of them now but had the blue one first.. mounted it onto of the steering column for egt... problem with that was night driving, i was always checking to make sure i wasn't on high beam as the blue from the guage looked like the highbeam light at a glance... I've got a red one in place of that now, all good other than the warning light is so bright at night i had to put a bit of window tint over it to shade it down.

[kbushnz]

I have used different colours ...
Red = EGT
Blue = Water Temp
Green = Boost pressure

[tweake]

be careful with putting them on top of the dash.
thats where i have mine and they overheat on sunny days.

[kiwipete]

What is the issue with them overheating?
I really have no other option to mount them anywhere else unfortunately.
BTW what colour did you use?

[kcinshaw]

I run the 24v ones in my safari and they work well. I mounted mine with double sided tape. Good quality gauge.

[tweake]

i've got them in the alloy boxes they have. just get to hot in th sun and will read really werid or fault mode (display EEEEE). plastic cover or sunshade over them and they are fine.
color red and orange.

[kiwipete]

i've got them in the alloy boxes they have. just get to hot in th sun and will read really werid or fault mode (display EEEEE). plastic cover or sunshade over them and they are fine.
color red and orange.

Sorry, I meant what colour gauges did you go with

[tweake]

i've got them in the alloy boxes they have. just get to hot in th sun and will read really werid or fault mode (display EEEEE). plastic cover or sunshade over them and they are fine.
color red and orange.

Sorry, I meant what colour gauges did you go with

red and orange.
before i forget one small problem at night is they reflect off the front window.
i'm about to move them done into the dash. as they have alarm and buzzer hooked to them, i don't need to look at them all the time.

[Twodiffs]

Daytime.

Did you go for different colours to make it easier to distinguish between them at a glance?

Yep....egt is red, boost green and blue = water temp. Plus the egt and water temp have alarms.

[Diorama]

If you send me your e-mail address I will send you some pics of my mountings. I have them in a purpose built console down by the gear shifter. No issues with them being too bright and easy to see when its sunny as they are usually in the shade where they are mounted. I have an alarm on them programed to go off at the preset set points. Am running a red gauge for EGT, Blue for boost, and orange for trans temp. With the different colours its easy at a glance to distinguish between

[Slideways]

I installed an Auber EGT gauge where the hazard light button is. I took the button out and put it in a spare slot down by the coin holder, the wiring loom just needs a clip removing and it fits easy.

Then I marked the shape using the rubber seal for the gauge and cut out a horizontal hole, a bit of filing and the gauge fits well. Since the hazard button was mounted vertically it means that the top half of the slot is still there but I just used it to run some other cables.

There would be room to mount two there actually.

Its a nice spot for it, nice and high.

[Drurban]

Hi kiwipete,

I have a blue one and green and have no Issues with seeing them in day time also you can adjust brightness on the gauge.

Cheers

[wjw]

Pete borrowed mine and said Blue isn't for him... I'll leave the detail to him

[Dr_PC]

OI Don't know about these particular gaues but years ago I would always use orange, as I found them easy to read regardless of time of day or night and with dimmers I could drop them right down so the night vision stayed good

[tallsam66]

Pete borrowed mine and said Blue isn't for him... I'll leave the detail to him

Nothing wrong with FORD blue lol

[kiwipete]

Today I have assembled the new instrument gauges into their cases ready for installing on the dashboard. I chose red in the end as this matches the rest of the lighting on the dashboard the closest, now I see Auberins have white ones available.

If anyone has a spare gauge that they do not need, irrespective of colour, I may be interested depending on cost, for a voltage gauge project I have in mind.

I will use my existing EGT probe as it is happily in place.


The wiring looks a mess, but it will all look nice and tidy when they are installed.


12V applied


and with the park light circuit enabled for dimming.


I will leave the backs open to allow better air flow.


These are the backs of the units that I have left off; only one small grommet hole supplied to get power, park light, probe and buzzer wiring through!


The three cases have been joined together with some VHB tape and I will use the same tape when it comes time to stick them to the dashboard too. But now it is time to remove the old gauges and wire these ones in place proper.
(Maybe I will find the annoying squeak that is hiding behind the dashboard too )

[kiwipete]

Ok, so I have a wee issue now. I have installed the gauges and held them in place temporarily with some sticky backed Velcro strips.

They have been set up with the factory instructions settings and this is what I see on them. Boost on the left EGT in centre and AT Oil temp on the right side.
I am not concerned about the Oil temp as this is not plumbed in yet.



The boost reads 12.4 psi with the engine off, should I set it to read 0 psi?

Now the egt seems to climb far too high and reads over 800 deg on mild acceleration. I have it set to K type thermocouple as per the instructions but I am puzzled by these readings?

Is there anyone here in Chch with experience in setting up these gauges that might like to have a squiz at my install please? or some advise on here will be appreciated too.

[Twodiffs]

As for boost - yes, should be 0.0 at idle, there are details in the instructions for adjusting the PHL or PLL (or something similar) settings..can't remember what it is, would have to dig out my info from somewhere.

[wjw]

Now the egt seems to climb far too high and reads over 800 deg on mild acceleration. I have it set to K type thermocouple as per the instructions but I am puzzled by these readings?

Did you buy the thermocouple from them? From playing with the Raspberry Pi, I have found I needed two different configs for the two K type Thermocouples I have (Auber one and the one from our boiler), fortunately they are both well documented on the net so I picked up the settings via google.

[kbushnz]

The boost reads 12.4 psi with the engine off, should I set it to read 0 psi

Depends if you have set it up for absolute pressure (atmospheric pressure +)
or relative pressure (takes away atmos pressure or called gauge pressure)

The sensor choice also determines what you are reading.

I used this for my boost gauge..
http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_ ... cts_id=201

So it measures the gauge pressure ... Doesn't worry about the atmospheric pressure of the day....

Here are some words from the install manual.

For a sensor which is a absolute pressure sensor.

5) If you want display zero at atmosphere pressure, shift the PuL and PuH down be one atmosphere pressure unit (standard atmosphere =1.00bar or 14.5PSI).
For display in Bar, PuL = 0.01076-1 = -0.99, PuH = 3.154-1 = 2.15
For display in PSI, PuL= - 14.4, PuH = 31.2
Note. Since this is an absolute pressure sensor instead of gauge pressure sensor, the meter will not display zero pressure unless the absolute barometric pressure at the sensor location is 1.00 bars (or 14.5PSI). The barometric pressure reported from location weather station is the pressure converted to the sea level, or relative barometric pressure. It is not the absolute barometric pressure at the local altitude.

[kiwipete]

Now the egt seems to climb far too high and reads over 800 deg on mild acceleration. I have it set to K type thermocouple as per the instructions but I am puzzled by these readings?

Did you buy the thermocouple from them? From playing with the Raspberry Pi, I have found I needed two different configs for the two K type Thermocouples I have (Auber one and the one from our boiler), fortunately they are both well documented on the net so I picked up the settings via google.

The thermocouple I am using is the one that is already plumed in, it came with an "Autogauge" one. It is "K" type.

I re-checked the settings before I left work tonight and it seems better, I think I had it set for Fahrenheit

It seemed to be reading as it should on the way home, I just need to wait till the manifold is cold and check that the static reading of that is correct.

[kiwipete]

The boost reads 12.4 psi with the engine off, should I set it to read 0 psi

Depends if you have set it up for absolute pressure (atmospheric pressure +)
or relative pressure (takes away atmos pressure or called gauge pressure)

The sensor choice also determines what you are reading.

I used this for my boost gauge..
http://www.auberins.com/index.php?main_ ... cts_id=201

So it measures the gauge pressure ... Doesn't worry about the atmospheric pressure of the day....

Here are some words from the install manual.

For a sensor which is a absolute pressure sensor.

5) If you want display zero at atmosphere pressure, shift the PuL and PuH down be one atmosphere pressure unit (standard atmosphere =1.00bar or 14.5PSI).
For display in Bar, PuL = 0.01076-1 = -0.99, PuH = 3.154-1 = 2.15
For display in PSI, PuL= - 14.4, PuH = 31.2
Note. Since this is an absolute pressure sensor instead of gauge pressure sensor, the meter will not display zero pressure unless the absolute barometric pressure at the sensor location is 1.00 bars (or 14.5PSI). The barometric pressure reported from location weather station is the pressure converted to the sea level, or relative barometric pressure. It is not the absolute barometric pressure at the local altitude.

My bad there Calvin, I had it set to the wrong PuL and PuH; I have now set it to PuL= -05.4 and PuH= 048.9 and it seems to be about right.

The Inty setting for 0-5V fooled me till I re read the Instruction Manual to see it needed a setting of Su.