First off, this ain't no pavement princess there pal! LOL
oke: This truck see's more work in a week than prolly 50% of the trucks on here see in a year.
Second, not even the same class as a Smarty. Yes, I want a smarty, but this opens up a whole new can-o-worms for the racer types. I haven't seen these displays in the competiton/performance world yet and I don't know why. They are perfect. Here's why (and this soley depends on the cummins bus being available at the data port and it works, which I will try shortly).
You can display up to four engine parameters at a time and select from over 30 parameters (Edge Attitude give you something like 12 to choose from).
You can plug it into the data port in the cab (as long as I can make it work) and not penetrate (I said 'penetrate' huh huh...) the firewall. Power and everything is available on the same connector so one cable does it all (or so I think it will).
You can display four parameters as you simultaneously drive up to eight external gauges. These gauges are the same size as we use now. Buy a boost, EGT, and whatever else and stack them in a pod. As long as you don't mind electronic data driving your gauges instead of thermo couples and pressurized tubes you can display everything right there from the engine data on the port.
I can buy the fuel tank sender from them and hook directly to the readout and display the fuel level in my auxiliary tank.
If you are driving down the road and your engine throws a code, it pops up on the screen with the code and text in English (or any other freakin' language you want). If you want to ignore it, hit Enter. Hit Enter again to return to the code.
Adjustable backlight blah blah blah......
One of our old techs graduated and got hired on as a design engineer for them. He told me about them and I got one to try. It won't clear codes is the only thing it needs next. Maybe I can work that in as a suggestion for the next breed!