Project: Car PC

Theres nothing behind the fan and I don't realy want to block up any airflow. This is the 3rd wooden case ive put a pc into and believe me it doesn't get as hot as what its made out to be. Its only a P3 733mhz and after 6 hours of use it wasn't even luke warm. Its not a air tight seal around the box so hot air can escape. Another feature which I looked at was theres a spare speaker grill thats not in use at the top, so that acts as a vent. Will keep you updated.
 
snowdog said:
Also just a question, why a 48x cd player and not a simple dvd-burner since they're so cheap anyway, would be a shame if you couldnt at least play dvd's in it, my opinion anyhow...
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that was only there for a test, now have a dvd-rw in place.
 
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I have seen many pc's fitted into cars, The hdd can die very easly with all that bass and bumps if you have just screwed it to the wood. Use some rubber plugs so it has some movment like it laptops.
 
MarkLP said:
02-05-2007, 02:56 AM


Fixed some padding on the mount for the hard drive.

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doing a similar sort of thing with my car although using laptop hd and dvd,
main use for mine is music + ecu integration for realtime gauges etc
looks god though.
mines going to be a bit silly overpowered nf7s with xp2500 mobile.
just what i got lying around :(
 
I've been building a CarPC at work for the past year :( Progress has stalled a bit as you can probably guess lol

I think you might have issues with a desktop HD, might be worth looking into some sort of vibration-proof mountings for the drive, or alternatively getting a 2.5" laptop HD instead as they're built to handle small shocks.

Have you thought about running a long IDE-to-USB cable from your dash to the boot and mounting the DVD drive in the dash with the monitor? I think it would probably get quite annoying having to stop the car whenever you want to change discs..

The CarPC I've been working on has an Opus 150W PSU and a special PCI/PCMCIA wireless card which supports WWoL (Wireless Wake-on-LAN) - so I will be able to remotely bring my CarPC out of hiberation, upload new songs, and it will automatically go back to hiberation once Ive finished. :)

Also as has already been mentioned - get a DVD drive. Makes no sense artificially crippling the system with a CD drive when you're going to all this trouble anyway.
 
Durzel said:
Also as has already been mentioned - get a DVD drive. Makes no sense artificially crippling the system with a CD drive when you're going to all this trouble anyway.
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Lol, im sure people only read half the thread. I posted saying theres now a dvd-rw in place. Which means I can play films etc :)
 
Durzel said:
I think you might have issues with a desktop HD, might be worth looking into some sort of vibration-proof mountings for the drive, or alternatively getting a 2.5" laptop HD instead as they're built to handle small shocks.
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If I was going to make a carPC I would suspend the hard drives between two short bungee cords, that way they would never suffer sudden jolts as the bungees would just jibble (that's a technical term!) around and absorb the shock, then come back to rest gradually.
 
MrSix said:
If I was going to make a carPC I would suspend the hard drives between two short bungee cords, that way they would never suffer sudden jolts as the bungees would just jibble (that's a technical term!) around and absorb the shock, then come back to rest gradually.
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Thats something I have thought about but not come up with a reasonable idea. Theres problems of it staying off the wood itself. it would have to be held against sponge or something like that. Then you would have the problems of connecting the bungee cords.
 
Here's my idea, the two pillars stick out from the hardboard, then you suspend the HDD between the two pillars using bungees or thick elastic bands which have been placed over the HDD normally, then had the ends turned, to form two loops at either end to place over the pillars. This would mean the HDD was freely suspended between the two and free to...here it comes folks...'jibble' around.
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(that MOBO text should be lower, next to the green shape which is representing the motherboard)
 
MrSix said:
Here's my idea, the two pillars stick out from the hardboard, then you suspend the HDD between the two pillars using bungees or thick elastic bands which have been placed over the HDD normally, then had the ends turned, to form two loops at either end to place over the pillars. This would mean the HDD was freely suspended between the two and free to...here it comes folks...'jibble' around.
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(that MOBO text should be lower, next to the green shape which is representing the motherboard)
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I've seen someone do that before somewhere... can't remember where though :o
 
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