Monday,15-December-2014

VW pasat B5 - central locking / централно пасат

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That story began with that the car originally was with central locking system, but it work only if you put the key within the locker, or push the buttons inside on the door arm rest.No remote,no joy. The owner bought some box that the seller claim will perfectly do the job and here we go: Историята започна с идеята, че собственика на това возило искаше да си има регулярно централно с дистанционно. Е то централно си имаше рабтещо фабрично но то само действаше ако се сложи ключа в ключалката или се натиснат копчетата отвътре. Той купил едно универсално модулче, за което продавача твърдял че това е неговото решение на проблема. Или:

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Hdd as decoradion / Tв. диск като украса

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There was one old, small as storage 2.5" HDD, laying around. And one morning the idea appear - why not to put it in frame? Из дома се търкаляше един 2.5" диск от лаптоп чиито обем го правеше потенциален кандидат за коша.. докато една заран - идеята се оформи.. Защо да не стане за украса?

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My CNC (ex)router

My project began just as most - from having fun of drawing

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I found some material in internet and check others projects. Well, it turn to not be the breaking bone practice so i deside to order parts and to give it a try.
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Xantia II - steering wheel audio player PIONEER control

Sony or Pioneer have resistor based wire remote. And because I bought one PIONEER DEH with 3.5mm plug for wire remote I start that project.
Internet investigation give me the list of the needed resistor values. The work was to replace resistors and redesign little the track relation and.. to enjoy the feeling of not touching the stereo when driving.
Schematic is enough I think to get all idea

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Xantia II - dashboard

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That was my first removing for that car,the reason was - burned backlight and signal lamps.

Xantia II - add relays for front main beam lights

Interesting - front fog lights are connected via relay, but why the hell the main one is only .. through the key? And here it come my idea

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I remove the fuses. On every fuse position you have +12V coming from the light stalk, and the second is the exit to the lamps. I toke +12V straight from the battery plug to the relay, from there it goes to the output pin of the fuse. The input one from the stalk is used to control the relay. In that way the high current is removed from the stalk, and the main beam lights work much brighter. Job done!

Xantia II - rear wiper

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EN: My rear wiper was just stuck. Any attempt for use lead to burn fuse. So here is what i decide to make:

Remove the mottor, and remove all rivets that keep the aluminum cover. That will be replaced by small screws. Just drill suitable holes for M3.5 or M4.0

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Clean really well the mechanical part and check the bronze contacts. Add grease.

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After that open the relay cover with screw drivers and check for broken soldier points same as marked on the image. Clear the contacts, what is possible by gently pull out the contact plate.
Here how you can save few bucks by not paying for new unit.Good luck!

Xantia II - rear window heater /задно стъкло отоплител

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When i bought the car,weather was warm and nice and i did not try if trunk window heating work. The problem appear that someone make cable repair and didn`t pull the cover gently and reap off together with the pin the heater plug. The only solution was to add new pin, but that was quite impossible because the resisting foil is so thin. So i decide to solder cable, and on it end to have that pin. The way i have don it was to spray solder acid to clean the copper surface, then until is wet, heat solder material and spread it little over. After that add one huge drop on the cable. After that drop is in almost liquid phase,and is few mm close to the surface i heat it with the solder iron and push it on. Immediately blow to cool all down because that resisting layer is so thin that second later you`ll have hole there. Job done! Kогато купих колата не обърнах внимание на това че има проблем с нагревателя на задното стъкло. Проблема бе откъртен пин при сваляне на кора от някой спец. За целта почистих едно удобно място с химикал за запояване, и на кабел на който предварително бях поставил кабелна обувка,нанесох обилен слой калай. След това леко затоплик парченце тенол и го стопих върху мястото на стъклото.Много внимателно ислед докосване, веднага обдухване за да не пробие фолиото. Същото с кабела - затополих на разстояние около 5мм от стъклото кабела до състояние течна фаза на тенола по него , при което веднага допрях и обдухах да не прегори. Вече втора година имам задно отопление!

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Toyota Corolla 1998 - fog ligh problem

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The problem - the rear fog lamp was not working. Solution - the car have trail hook and close to it the electric plug get bad contacts. Due the toyota design the fog light cable took power via that plug point. Why.. have no clue. Just unplug the connector in the right trunk pillar and attach straight both original ones. And here we go! At least the owner did not wish more troubles, otherwise the power plug close to the hook need to be replaced. Проблемът бе че фара за мъгла отзад не светеше. Поради спецификата на окабеляването, преходна букса бе поставена между оригиналните в дясна задна половина , която се вижда на снимка. От там сигнала се затваряше през буксата до теглича. Тоест като се вкара букса да прекъсва гара за мъгла или знам ли.. Но поради корозия всичко бе зле, и следователно вместо 12++ волта идваха до лампата само 3. Откачих преходната и закачих направо оригиналните и - готово!

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Opel Vectra - dash backlight / подсветка

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The probelm: burned most of the backlight bulbs Проблемът: Изгорели лампички на подсветка

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