Drag Illustrated Issue 132, May 2018 | Page 64

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, 64 | D r a g I l l u s t r a t e d | DragIllustrated.com 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. Issue 132