My latest find from AllElectronics.com

http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/item/RC-10/keychain_remote_control.html
Pretty frikken sweet.
They also just stocked a DIN-size mobile DVD player (w/o screen) for $44!! Going to be making an order soon. I love that place.

Looks a lot better than the crappy one I bought from Wally World. Cheaper too.

Report back about the range of this

Sure, Phil. I probably wont have it until March though, I'm moving into a new apartment soon, and so am cutting out unneccessary purchases for awhile, just to be safe. I'm not sure what kind of appliances I'm going to have to buy yet, might have to spring for the whole lot: Microwave, Stove, Fridge, etc. Then there's furniture and I know I'm going to have to get a bed/matress, so, yah, I'm saving my money just in case. But I will let you know as soon as I buy the remote.

Cool, saving money is good

I bet it is around 100 feet, nothing too extreme.

I really want some sort of remote that will work miles away and give me feedback. It would be perfect if it could control unlimited functions of the car and be able to send data like tank pressure or temperature, engine status, etc.

Phil: I'll invent it, and you'll sell it

miles away? Good luck with that. I don't think I've seen anything like that.

something like that would have to be satellite or only work line of sight...

i dont think the fcc would allow it without the appropriate license, as well as the technical difficulty. give your car a satellite internet connection? or wifi and park it in a hotspot?

just make it work off the cellphone networks. have it text your phone of statuses of everything, and then send texts back to it to get osmething to turn on/off.

alienyoungjr wrote:

just make it work off the cellphone networks. have it text your phone of statuses of everything, and then send texts back to it to get osmething to turn on/off.

sounds like the best idea to me, but you'd have to have an extra cell phone line dedicated to the car, which would be like $20/month. kind of expensive just to know the engine status. plus the cellphone in the car would have to be something like a blackberry or windows mobile phone ($200 minimum), so that it could be programmed to respond to txt messages and read data from the car.

is allelectronics legit?

hahaha yes

yah definetely, i've ordered about $100 of stuff from them and it usually takes about 5 business days to ship. very nice customer service too.

alero wrote:

is allelectronics legit?

is a new crazy trend starting?

allelectronics is a great site. ive ordered from there catalog plenty of times.

I order wire and crimp terminals from AE and leds and resistors and everything else from OZ...the combination of both sites can not be beat. Awesome ****.

ok. geez sorry I've never heard of allelectronics before, its not as well known as say Summitracing.

lol

lol.

But holy crap... between Oznium and allelectronics, I'm gonna go broke. Well atleast I'll have some cool stuff to play with though

coldfusion01 wrote:

lol. But holy crap... between Oznium and allelectronics, I'm gonna go broke. Well atleast I'll have some cool stuff to play with though

HAHA your gonna be playing with yourself while your broke
sry i had to say something stupid

lol, thanks blaze...

but least i'll be occupying my time :p