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Thanks. G-Dash Digital Display 02 04 G-DASH KIT 08 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION 12 PC CONFIGURATION 26 KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION 30 ENGAGED GEAR 32 POWERING ON AND OFF/DATA RECALL 34 INTERACTION WITH SMARTYCAM 38 DATA SHEET We would like to thank you for choosing G-Dash, our new display showing in real time data sampled by EVO4 logger.
CHAPTER 1 G-Dash kit G-Dash with CAN cable for EVO4 connection.
GETTING STARTED CHAPTER 1 G-DASH G-Dash Configurable Alarm LEDs 1-2 Shift Lights Configurable Alarm LEDs 3-4 Aluminum Body Diplay Multifunctional Pushbuttons 06 CAN - Power Connection 07
CHAPTER 1 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION G-DASH How To install and Connect G-Dash to EVO4. 1 G-Dash must be connected via CAN bus to your EVO4 (whose firmware version must be 43.05.01 or newer), by plugging the CAN cable into the logger “EXP” port. ECU - CAN RS232 Beacon Exp.
CHAPTER 1 2 INSTALLATION AND CONNECTION G-DASH 4 Please check the firmware version of your EVO4: connect it to PC via USB, open the Race Studio 2 software and press ‘Device Info’ button (1). If the firmware is not adequate: 1 If the EVO4 firmware is older than 43.05.01, open the aim-sportline.com “Download Firmware” website area, and download the current version onto your computer. Then run the firmware update program by following the included instructions.
CHAPTER 2 PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH How to Configure G-Dash. 1 G-Dash receives its configuration parameters from EVO4, so you must configure EVO4 in order to make G-Dash display your data correctly. 12 Therefore, select in EVO4 configuration G-Dash as the display. G-Dash pages, shift lights and alarms configuration is done using the Race Studio 2 software.
CHAPTER 3 PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH Pages Configuration. 2 G-Dash is able to fully configure up to 9 pages, allowing you to view your data in user definable and very flexible ways. Select the “Pages” tab to enter the Pages Configuration panel: custom pages are all disabled by default.
CHAPTER 3 8 Freely Configurable Pages. You can add up to four fields per page, defining also the short name that will describe that field. PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH At the bottom of the list, you find other two pages: Satellites and SmartyCam. n Satellites Satellites shows the level of GPS signal. For good precision, it is best to acquire data from at least 8 satellites n SmartyCam SmartyCam status shows the status of the camera, when connected to the system.
CHAPTER 3 PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH Shift Lights Configuration. 3 Click “Configure Shift Lights” to manage the Shift Light LED’s. The panel shown below appears and you can manage all 6 LEDs color and the RPM threshold value which will turn it on. Shift Lights By selecting the “Advanced options” function, you can more deeply configure your Shift Light LED’s.
CHAPTER 3 n The shift lights dependence upon the gear position: you can configure G-Dash to have different Shift Light LED thresholds for each gear position (2). PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH When you select this option you can set the maximum number of gears (up to 9): the view below appears.
CHAPTER 3 PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH Alarms Configuration 4 Click on the “Add new alarm event” button to add new Alarms or click on the icon to the right to manage existing alarms. When you click on the “Add new alarm event” button, the window below appears. Here you can select the event the system will check and the effect of that event. 1 – Fill in the DESCRIPTION field, in order to easily identify the event in the future (1).
CHAPTER 3 You can add different events and define the alarm as a combination of ALL the events or ANY of them (1). Finally, you will configure the duration of the alarm. (2). Here are the options: n Until the condition is no longer met n Until the data is downloaded n Until the device is turned off n Until a button is pushed PC CONFIGURATION G-DASH Once the configurations are built, a summary will appear: any time you need to edit the settings, just click the botton and proceed.
CHAPTER 4 G-DASH KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION Keyboard Configuration. 1 Once G-Dash is turned on, the RPM and Lap Time page appears: it shows RPM and lap time (the lap time selected among the four modes explained above), together with current lap number and the additional configurable channels. 26 2 Pressing Menu>>Display Setup>>PageSetup>>Page you can enable up to eight Custom Pages. 3 GPS page: this shows the number of visible satellites and their signal strength.
CHAPTER 4 Selecting “Menu” you can also: 1 n Set the Time/Date format. G-DASH KEYBOARD CONFIGURATION Besides page setting, the “Display setup” feature allows you to: 2 n Set the partial odometer and also track the engine running time (of up to 4 engine). 3 n Choose the displayed language and view the device info (serial number and installed firmware version) of both G-Dash and EVO4, by selecting the “System Management”. 4 n Enable/disable the backlight.
CHAPTER 5 ENGAGED GEAR G-DASH Engaged Gear. Engaged gear information is provided by EVO4 and automatically displayed if you choose – in the System Configuration panel – to set the gear: - using a potentiometer - via ECU connection Gear calibration may be restarted using the keyboard: the path is Menu>>System Management>> Restart Gear Calibration. 1 If you choose the “Calculated” mode, during the calculation G-Dash will show this icon in the RPM and Lap Time page.
CHAPTER 6 POWERING ON AND OFF / DATA RECALL Powering On/Off. Data Recall. G-Dash is powered by EVO4 and turns on and off with the EVO4 with no additional user input. Pressing the “MEM” pushbutton (1) you will recall the data from the latest test sessions stored in memory (max. 6). G-DASH As soon as EVO4 senses an RPM value, G-Dash menu will change.
CHAPTER 7 INTERACTION WITH SMARTYCAM G-DASH To visualize up to 16 channels of data sampled by the EVO4 (including ECU based data) on SmartyCam generated videos, you must configure your EVO4 with the Race Studio 2 software and send the configuration to the SmartyCam. In the Race Studio 2 software, follow this path: “Device Configuration”>>“EVO4”>>>“SmartyCam functions setting”. Interaction with SmartyCam. SmartyCam G-Dash communicates with SmartyCam via the CAN-bus through EVO4 datalogger.
CHAPTER 7 INTERACTION WITH SMARTYCAM G-DASH SmartyCam HD In G-Dash Menu, the SmartyCam page follows the GPS page: The path is Menu>>Display Setup>>Page Setup>>Smarty. This page displays if the SmartyCam is currently recording (REC: ON). Also displayed is the amount of memory is left on the MicroSD memory card inserted in the SmartyCam.
CHAPTER 8 G-DASH DATA SHEET G-DASH G-Dash n Graphical Display n Aluminum body n Grey backlight n 4 RGB Alarm LEDS n 6 RGB Shift Lights n Dimensions: 119x82x20 mm n Weight: 350g n Waterproof IP67 Our web site aim-sportline.com is constantly updated. We try to share with you our experiences about our products and how to use them in the tracks all over the world. Please, constantly check it and download the last versions of the firmware of your products.
