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 on: May 15, 2024, 09:01:00 am 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Grapes
Yes that was also my concern (the video being a bit older). I have received Florent his contact details through a private message exchange on the matra passion forum with one of the people who helped design that board. I contacted him and got a repy the same or the next day. I believe he makes them to order through his company or the company he works for Elecflo in Belgium. I paid a little over €200 because I asked for a B2B invoice. (I use the Murena as a company car) For private individuals the price is a little lower.

I do like your approach and I'm all for reducing waste. There's still a bunch of used ones for sale on leboncoin that look in good condition. Here's the link if anyone is interested: https://www.leboncoin.fr/ad/equipement_auto/2340861756
I heard it's a bit hard to use that website for non-french people though. Possibly due to registration address requirements but I haven't tried signing up personally.

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 on: May 14, 2024, 12:52:05 pm 
Started by Grapes - Last post by roy4matra
Certainly! It's more like yours actually. Very close to the original design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uLfRXA-5Jx8

Thanks for the video link, but that was made about 3 years ago.  Is it still made, and is it for sale?  Any idea approximately how much it costs?  We still don't know where we can find this modification if it is still available.  I did try searching for it, but could not find anything.  Did you find it and buy one?

I agree it looks good, and will cure the problems of broken terminals in the edge plugs, but having all the connections separately makes it more tedious when disconnecting and reconnecting the board, with possible circuit mistakes being made too, with incorrect connections.  And of course you need an entirely new circuit board.

The idea of my board was to re-use good existing boards and therefore save wastage.  The change from original type fuses to glass ones was also optional, and not necessarily required.

Roy

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 on: May 14, 2024, 09:04:06 am 
Started by Anders Dinsen - Last post by TELBOY
Its surprisingly easy to reach everything whilst standing in the boot and not too uncomfortable until you forget where you are, stand up, and clout your head on the glass hatch. Done it too many times to mention lol.

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 on: May 12, 2024, 08:36:36 am 
Started by Anders Dinsen - Last post by Anders Dinsen
The car is now back on its wheels with rear trailing arms fitted, brakes, brake circuit bled, clutch bled, and handbrake cable attached. It's good to have the car back on its four wheels. Next job is fitting the last engine ancillaries. I wanted the car back on the rear wheels so I could more easily climb into the trunk and work from there. It's really the best place from where to reach into the engine room. No pictures today, though.

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 on: May 12, 2024, 08:33:24 am 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Anders Dinsen
Nice video and a nice solution, I think.

Jesper and I have been talking about making a layout for a board. Pro quality PCBs can be ordered in small quantities from PCBWAY or JLCPCB (I've used JLCPCB several times now).

/Anders



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 on: May 11, 2024, 07:56:57 am 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Grapes
Certainly! It's more like yours actually. Very close to the original design.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=uLfRXA-5Jx8

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 on: May 09, 2024, 11:22:57 am 
Started by Grapes - Last post by roy4matra
Ah thanks for letting me know. I read this too late. I found my way to the French matra passion forum and from there I was redirected to the Belgian new production. They use the new blade fuses although I think the glass ones on the original board look best of all options. Perhaps one day I'll swap again.

Can you give us the link to that Belgian product here please, as I'd like to see it, as might other owners. However, without seeing it, I suspect that it still uses the original edge plugs and therefore still would have problems if the terminals in those plugs are broken, and not making a positive contact. Am I right or have they corrected for that too?

Here is a photo of one of the original Murena boards, that I have modified with both new edge plugs and sockets that are soldered to the board, so the connections are really good; and this one also has the glass fuses replacing the original horrible continental fuses, for much better contact there too.

Roy

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 on: May 07, 2024, 10:17:30 pm 
Started by TELBOY - Last post by TELBOY
Hi Terry, is you brake servo plumbed in on the electric vac pump as well as the lighting, or just used for the headlight raising/ lowering ?
Just the lighting! The manifold had been drilled and tapped to create a second vacuum takeoff for the lights.


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 on: May 07, 2024, 09:39:28 pm 
Started by Grapes - Last post by Grapes
Ah thanks for letting me know. I read this too late. I found my way to the French matra passion forum and from there I was redirected to the Belgian new production. They use the new blade fuses although I think the glass ones on the original board look best of all options. Perhaps one day I'll swap again.

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 on: May 07, 2024, 05:47:21 pm 
Started by TELBOY - Last post by tonyz59
Hi Terry, is you brake servo plumbed in on the electric vac pump as well as the lighting, or just used for the headlight raising/ lowering ?

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