Outer Limits 4x4 Board

Afternoon all The HJ61i recently bought came with this thing among other things like AM etc. What is it? cant find a serial number to ID it. Figured someone on here would know what it is. cheers http://s117.photobucket.com/albums/o64/insertnamehere_photo/?action=view&current=P1050197.jpg As ...

Something to remember when using LED's as indicators across relay coils... is called Back EMF. When a relay coil de-energises, the collapsing magnetic field creates a large reverse voltage spike. (try it for yourself, get a relay, hold the coil contacts with your fingers, wet your fingers if you are ...

I have a 5 watt hand held UHF than I cannot find the battery for :oops: My question is: can I connect two wires (obviously the pos and the neg) through a fused outlet direct to the battery terminals on the unit where the battery would normally contact. This would supply 12 volt power to it...would ...

I got some aircraft map lights from here :- http://www.steinair.com/lights.htm I got two of the red LED lamps and fitted them to the sides of my Dept. of the Interior roof console. They look very smart and have a bright, red directional light that doesn't destroy your night vision. The only downside ...

sorry bout kinda hijacking thread but is anyone heard of commex radios Yes, I remember working on a Commex radio some time ago. It was a Uniden/Pearce Simpson clone, pretty crappy construction but seemed to work OK. I wouldn't touch one these days with the likes of the Icom and GME radios that are ...

Several manuals are needed for a for a Hilux. Electrical, engine, body etc. are all in seperate manuals. I bought the Toyota electrical and electrical supplement manuals for my 2004 Hilux Dualcab for around $120 each from my local Toyota dealer. I went into their workshop, looked at their manual ...

You might want to tie up that cable hanging down near the brake pedal, you never know when your thong will get caught up in it!
Otherwise a nice looking 'Lux!

I have two Icom UHF radios in my Hilux. One antenna is on the bullbar and the other on the ute frame. I get a little de-sensing (caused when radios/antennas are physically close to each other and one radio transmtting stops the other radio from receiving weak signals), but overall it isn't too bad ...

If you want to reduce the brightness with very little mucking around, jam a 24V lamp in the gauge and see how that goes.... You might surprised at how bright it is on 12V, especially at night. When I replace lamps in gauges on boats (which are 24V), I normally fit 28V or 32V lamps. They don't stuff ...

umm ... it's pretty much a screw which you turn with a small screwdriver - like a volume knob - clockwise makes it louder, anti-clockwise makes it softer. You need a very small screwdriver to do this, and if at all possible use a non-metallic tool. If you short out the wrong thing, you could be in ...

Because of the Icom IC-400PRO's heritage, based on a commercial radio, you need to connect the microphone clip to negative/ground so the radio can tell if you have "finished" using the radio. The scan function will only work if the microphone is hung up in the clip. The radio can also be programmed ...

I have taken some precautions with my radio installation, but I still used existing holes in the firewall to pass my coax cables and power cables through. I have an Icom IC-2800H 50/30 watt VHF/UHF transceiver with the antenna mounted on the bullbar and have found no problems with my 2004 Hilux 3 ...

You can set a scan tag (OPEN, GROUP, PRIORITY) on any channel. For example, say you are scanning all the UHF CB channels from 1 to 40 in the OPEN scan mode. If you want to add a RX only channel to your scan, you first need to select the RX BANK by pressing (F) and selecting RX BANK using the up and ...

I have been pricing up intercooler options for my Hilux. The ones that have shown the best perfomance are the air/liquid ones with a separate radiator (and thermo fan) with coolant and heat exchanger between the turbo and manifold. These can be a bit pricey though, but bear in mind that they DO work ...

Could be that it's a 24V vehicle. Lots of Japanese and European 4x4's are 24V....

It's all well and good to want a 25W UHF radio, even though it is illegal. BUT, unless the people you are talking to have a 25W radio, its possible that you will be in the situation where they can hear you, but because of their lowly 5W radios, you will not be able to hear them. This won't happen ...

Any fuse should be placed as close as possible to the battery, unless you are connecting to another wire which is correctly fused. This makes the length of un-fused wire as short as possible, helping prevent a fire in case of a short circuit. The last thing you want is a metre and a half of smoking ...

Hi Everybody,
The subject says it all, but I want to know what others have done. Any recommendations on where to shop?
I'm getting a VDO pyrometer to measure EGT.
Regards,
Michael.