iain ross

im thinking of buying a secs monitor to fill the hole beneath my single din head unit, are they worth having as £350 to fill a hole seems expensive.also if i do get one how easy are they to fit?

many thanks

StickyMicky

sorry mate i couldnt help sniggering
u can have your hole filled for a lot less then 350 nicker round this way mate

drb5

iTrader: (4)

lol. yes it's worth it(IMHO OF COURSE), compared to buying good quality gauges and a good pod anyway. tells you a whole lot more details and you can reset the ecu too!

greasemonkey

The SECS monitor and other diagnostic stream driven products give you a lot of information that can't easily be derived in any other manner. It also tells you "what the ECU sees", which can be handy in circumstances where you are attempting to identify a faulty or under-reading sensor.

However, what they are not is a complete replacement for all other gauges. The nature of the LCD display and the relatively slow refresh rate of the diagnostic stream itself makes it less useful than a standalone directly driven boost gauge, and it is also no replacement for a KnockLink, or indeed a good directly driven AFR meter.

Once these limitations are borne in mind, these devices (especially if able to monitor EGT, oil temp and pressure) make a very neat replacement for a stack of analog gauges. Certainly a neat way to fill your, erm, hole.

[Edited by greasemonkey - 10/24/2003 6:05:15 PM]

drb5

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well that explains it all. no offense greasemonkey. i have infact just ordered an afr and knocklink just for the reason stated above. knocklink is by far the ugliest of all ugly gauge type thingies though and i have to agree, although i've had the secs for only a month now, it's already helped me out a belter, when fitting me dawes and not just in the boosting part of it!!

Edcase

Totally agree with greasemonkey (as usual ).

I bought my SECS first, and have since supplemented it with a set of Defi gauges and a knocklink.

The SECS has a number of very useful other abilities, including an optional shift light (vital on trackdays) and the ability to read fault codes and reset your ECU, and the ability to control water injection.

You can also now link defi sensors to it to enable it to read oil temperature, oil pressure etc. as well as setting alarms for when it breaches preset levels.

iain ross

so it looks like its worth filling my hole. lol, good job its not the girlfriends car with you lot around. cheers guys. off to buy new alpine head unit and secs monitor tomorrow. new scoob here on thursday i cant wait

Steve vRS

I bought mine to see what knock corection I was running but more importantly what error codes the bloody CEL was flashing about!

Steve

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

had one for a while now but wish id bought the gauges as in sunny weather you cat see nothing as its LCD display plus the display is breaking up a lot now (cant recognise the gauge as its all £££ signs etc)and ive only had 5 months, and you only tend to leave on the boost gauge setting(well i do) so????? but i still like it, a proper informed position on SECs

drb5

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try changing the contrst m8

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

changing the contrast will do nothing for the display breaking up but thanks for the tip

drb5

iTrader: (4)

also, then, try wiggling the wires in the unit itself about. i found that a wire going from the select monitor port into the wee green connector on the alloy frame, wasn't pushed into the connector enough. just unscrewed it a little and pushed it in baw deep! it soon done what it was told after that!!!