PRODUCTS & PRESS
AEM RELEASES
LIGHTWEIGHT, AFFORDABLE
CD-5 CARBON FULL-COLOR
DIGITAL DASH DISPLAYS
AEM has released its Carbon
Fiber Composite CAN Dash 5”
(CD-5) and CAN Dash 5” Logging
(CD-5L) Super Bright digital dash
displays.
CD-5 Carbon Digital Dash Dis-
plays feature a full-color, daylight
readable screen surrounded by a
tough, lightweight flow-molded
carbon fiber composite housing.
Seven ultra-bright LEDs span
the top of the display housing for
RPM and shift light indication.
Users can program them to as-
cend in specific increments based
on RPM range, and flash when it
is time to shift. Brightness is user
programmable on the fixed color
LEDs. Two large buttons are in-
cluded on the face of the display,
allowing easy page changing and
memory resetting even with driv-
ing gloves on. These button func-
tions are included in the supplied
rear connector, allowing the user
to mount remote buttons. Two
additional programmable LEDs
are located above the toggle but-
tons on the top of the housing on
either side of the integrated LED
shift lights.
CD-5 Carbon Dashes can sim-
plify the update of an instrument
cluster or ease the instrumenta-
tion configuration of a new vehicle
build. Since the CD-5 Carbon only
requires a single cable for power,
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ground and receiving CAN data,
the wiring goes from complex to a
simple one plug connection. Street
rods, kit cars,and resto mods using
late-model crate engines no longer
have to be concerned with adding
a full set of gauges and trying to
keep the wiring clean, or having to
double up sensors on the engine
so the ECU and gauges both have
data – The CD-5 can see every-
thing the ECU is seeing via a single
cable connection – and that means
so can you!
Want to go hardcore? CD-5
Carbon Dashes make it easy. Add
additional sensor data with our
22 Channel CAN Sensor Module,
create custom layouts, integrate
track mapping and data logging
for driver coaching, see predictive
and actual lap times and set user-
defined prioritized alarms - it’s
all possible with the CD-5 Car-
bon Dash. Simple or Hardcore;
the choice is yours and the CD-5
Carbon’s capabilities are nearly
limitless.
The CD-5 Carbon receives chan-
nels from CAN bus inputs and it
does not require special modules to
read AEM and/or 3rd-party CAN
signals. It communicates with 45
AEM devices, is in-house tested to
work with 159 non-AEM devices
and we have DBC CAN files for 52
more non-AEM devices.
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