Swedish special fuel gauge visual

Dashboard Design Generic Design Discussion
1

Hello,

I can get fuel level by OBD2 and like the Swedish Special style fuel gauge.

There are 8 small bars that stack higher, depending on the level. I tried to set it up, but all the bars show, even when fuel level is low.

I edited the min and max level of every bar in the look and feel like this:

  • bar 1: min 0, max 10
  • bar 2: min 11, max 20,
  • bar 3: min 21, max 30
    And so on.

Still, all bars are visable. How to “hide” the bar when level is below value?

2

Use the normal,warning and critical levels of each bar and set the blend color transparency when you do not want to show it.

Here is a tutorial video of how to use the normal, warning and critical editing levels:
http://realdash.net/manuals.php

3

Thanks for the reply.

I still can’t get it to work. I watched the video, but it is not fully reflecting my situation.

Can you please discribe here in text what steps to take?

Fuel bar 1 is always visable (because there is always more then 10% fuel in my tank.
Fuel bar 2 should only be (fully) visable when there is more then 11% fuel in the tank
Fuel bar 2 should only be (fully) viasble when there is more then 21% in the tank
Fuel bar 3 above 31%
Fuel bar 4 above 41%
Fuel bar 5 above 51%
and so on.

I tried to figure out how the Gear gauge of the Swedish Special is setup, because that is the exact behavior I want the Fuel Gauge to be, but I have a hard time “copying” that to the fuel gauge.

4

Unless I don’t understand what you mean, you should be able to do this with warning and critical levels:

  • Bar 1, set warning and critical level to 0 - 10

  • Bar 1 go to Look’n Feel->Colors

  • Select editing level ‘warning’ and set opacity to 0

  • Select editing level ‘critical’ and set opacity to 0

  • Exit Look’n Feel

  • Select Bar 2

  • Bar 2, set warning and critical level to 0 - 20

  • etc …

5

Got it, but I had to do the opposite.
Example:

  • bar 1 always show, no need to adjust settings
  • bar 2 set critical level between 0 and 10, then with look and feel, go to blend color and set all opacity to 0 (I did 20, so I can see the bars a little when not lit) and only set opacity of critical level to 255.
    The same for each bar, but with critical max values increasing.
6

Ah, yes of course. But you got the idea :thumbs: