Escort Radar Detector Mod, make your own remote display
This is my first useful post in about a month, feel lucky escort section.
Taken from here originally (http://www.radardetector.net/forums/...scort-nsx.html) . I actually did this and switched it up a little, so I figured I'd post.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...%20Mod/nsx.jpg
The pictures are of a SR7, but all Escorts have the same display on them. Once you take the display off the board with a solder wick as shown above, you have to solder in new wires.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...d/IMG_1074.jpghttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...h_IMG_1075.jpg
This is were mine is different. I used an old VGA cable I had lying around. It has 15 wires inside, 9 of these for the display, and 2 to power a bi-color LED. I mounted both the display and the led on a pc board from radio shack for easy mounting together in the car. I looped the wires through the pc board, and zip tied the wire to the board to take stress off the connections.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...d/IMG_1077.jpg
After you solder the one end of the cord to the display, solder the other side to the main unit. Make sure you line up the colors :D. The wires on the left are for another mod.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...d/IMG_1100.jpghttp://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...h_IMG_1085.jpg
Test is out before you put everything back together.
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...s/IMG_0347.jpg
Alright, so the last step may have been a jump, but thats how it looks now. There is only one more step for my system, after thats done, I'll make a thread of all the mods together. I can now easily take off my cluster trim by just disconnecting the VGA cable. Before it was one cable so taking trim more than 6" out of place was impossible.
