I'm after a good fuel level gauge. I can display it on the AIM, but I've not really got enough channels and as far as I can tell, it's not that great anyway.

So, are there any fuel level gauges on the market that are effective and work with standard fuel tanks/senders?

I've looked at the Stack one, at £75 it seems cheap, but is it any good?

 

i have a stack one no probs so far

 

Whats it like to set up? Or does it just work?

 

dead handy its all in the instructions, cant remember exlactly how its done but i can remember it was piss easy and only took a few mins

 

can you use OE senders too?

 

yes mate

 

cheers

 

I have one too seems to work well but not sure ive got it set up right yet

 

Isn't trevcoss selling one just now ?

 

how many parameters does the aim read if you have run out of channels?
I would have thought the dash would be pretty limitless of displayable items.

 

There are only so many spaces availale!! LOL.

At the moment, I have an RPM sweep, digital RPM, Speed, Gear, Oil Pressure, Fuel Pressure, ACT, MAP and Lambda!!

I haven't hooked Oil Temp and EGT up yet and they are ahead of fuel level in the queue!

 

why have 2 RPM? and gear? have you got a sequential box now?

 

I could do away with the digital RPM, but it's handy to know exactly where you are RPM-wise, rather than looking at a sweep. However, I'll probably finish up with an Odometer in place of that (this is a road-car of course). The gear indicator is either on or off, you can't configure where that is displayed or put a different value in its place.

 

fair comment

what Odometer you looking to use? or is there one built into AIM?

 

The AIM has one.

 

I hope so ive one fitted but as yet not set-up. Anyone know the ohms of a standard Sierra sensor, sorry for asking on your thread Christian but ive not been able to find that out, if its one listed its easy to configure if not a tad more difficult.

 

That's fine Rod, it's not a million miles off-topic!

I imagined something that can be calibrated fairly precisely really, as in measuring the resistance of the sensor as you add fuel in 1 or 5 litre increments? Is there such a thing? Or is that just unnecessary?

 

which AIM dash is yours ?

does it not have separate pages that you can change on a push button ?

are you reading the sensors through an ecu or stand alone ?

 

Yes, LOL, but only so many!!

I'm using a Strada. The Pista will log alot more, but both still have the same amount of display space. From memory, there are 2 fields at the bottom of the dash that can be toggled (giving a total of 4) and about 7 in total including the others that cannot be toggled.

 

sounds to me like its not suitable for your needs that pal !

 

Thats not the case atall, would have been nice to do it without any additional gauges, but maybe I need to have one or two. I could have 2 52mm gauges where the stereo used to go. Perhaps Fuel level and EGT.

 

or you could buy a dash that display what you really want to see on it

i hate all the clutter of little unreliable guages personally. been there done that.

 

There's no such thing! LOL. It's not possible to display EVERYTHING. The AIM does it in a user-friendly and visible way, but you have to make some choices about what to display and prioritise accordingly.

 

there are plenty of dash displays out there that will dispay more than you could ever want. all the decent spec items have moveable pages, yours is obv got fixed display sectors i.e rev counter scales maybe ?

 

the main prob is not getting fuel level to display its how to slow signal down to not bounce around,the aim goes down to 1 sample per sec but could do with the signal being averaged over say 30 secs.

im not that clever to work out how!!! any one???

 

I use an AIM Christian and as same as you. Much as I love it I dont understand why it can read about 30 million channels but you can only toggle 2 pages. Really odd as they update the software probably 4 or 5 times a year but have never increased the number of toggle fields. Would be great if you could page through 4 or 5 sets of displays on that bottom row. sounds like a simple update?

Exactly the same boat as you. Want fuel on the AIM but other inputs take priority.

Gary, there are quite a few websites with circuit diagrams for damping the sensor output. Most for analogue gauges so not sure how that works with the aim?

This one has a decent write up. CLICKY

Stu

 

i use VDO for mine christian its what Ah recommend for my cell unsure if it'll work for wht your wanting tho!?

 

Whats wrong with eight proper Stack gauges in the centre console cant get my head round these new fangled AIM dashes, must be getting old.
When do you hope to be running the car Christian, need an invite when you go to Brunters .