![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I'm guessing that somewhere around 2010, power bricks got way, way smaller - this was the same time that the mac mini power supply vanished inside the case - and so monitor makers just stuffed it into the case. ![]() Even Samsung, who used to use external power bricks and deliver 12V to the monitor, have more or less given up on it. It is a 24" 1900x1080 (16x9) - not the ideal aspect ratio for programming but (a) it can be easily rotated (or will be once it is mounted) (b) not too far off, and we'll use it for movies too, where 16x9 is better (c) beggars can't be choosers - there are almost no 12V monitors in production anymore. $80 from a guy about 80 miles away from me. I managed to find a used Hanns-G model on ebay, just about the last one in North America it seems. To along with this box, I wanted a monitor that also avoided the need to run an inverter. I was amazed that it was still a fairly close fit - the edges of the fan flange still rest on the roof ribs in front and behind the circular area. So I simply went with the MB stamping up front. But there's really no good place for it in the back - ribs get in the way - and we worried about the noise of it being overhead at night. Originally I wanted to put the fan at the back of van and have the solar up front. This was actually the most arduous part of the whole weekend. You can do it afterwards too, but you will need a chisel and a hammer to bust this stuff off the metal and you might prefer not doing this right next to a newly-created edge. you're going to have to remove some of the MB acoustic dampening material.I used it as a solid square for the template and then cut out the middle with a jigsaw to act as the supporting edge. rather than cut a template AND a supporting (edge) frame for the fan, I used a single piece of 3/4" birch ply.the fan opening can really be 14", it doesn't need to be 13 15/16th.But finding the line through middle of it front-to-back is easy given MB frame holes. finding the center of the circle is hard.For the fan, I adopted Graphite Dave's template model to mark the corner(s) of the opening. So Aux jack it is - simple, device and format agnostic.Īlmost everything I'm going to do the van is based on what I've seen here and in the Sprinter RV source book. It is VERY hard to get information on whether or not modern car audio devices will support Ogg/Vorbis at this point - I've tried. I'd love to just get a DIN unit with USB support except that I'm enough of a geek that 75% of our music is in Ogg/Vorbis format. The Aux jack gives us more flexibility in terms of device hookup (one day my Sansa Clip+, another day someone's phone, another day a computer with the music collection on it, etc. Music is a central part of my day to day life, and definitely on the road, and although I imagine lots of other modifications and additions to the overall audio situation, just being able to plug our existing 120GB music collection into the Sound5 already seems like a big step. You can see the cable just above the air vent, and then out in the open in the passenger tray. I zip-tied the new cable to an existing hole in the dash framing (and the flexi-bundle heading in roughly the same direction). ![]()
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