New NVRAM setup

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Re: New NVRAM setup

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Progress actually tuned one of the cars on the dyno yesterday. Managed to clean the fuelling up and made some gains. Was very close to begin with.
But.....now I'm having another problem. I saved the .cal and the .bin off the nvram using the flashtool after I was finished so I could use the .bin to burn onto a vr memcal and both of them are 32kb i thought the .bin should of been 64kb?
I also took the nvram out and did a read using the tl868 and got the 128kb .bin
So what do I use to burn onto the chip? It's a BMZA chip that should be new and blank. But it fails a blank check and I cant Id it in xprog either. So any ideas would be very useful and I'll try and do some more searching. Having found the answer yet. Or what settings to use on the tl868 I have used the AMD brand 27c512 for a 512kb chip they had and burned a copy of their old tune onto it successfully.
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12P is a 32k program. You can write it to a 64k chip, the first 32k stays blank. people often use the stacker in tunerpro to make a 64k file with 2 copies of the tune, just to fill up the bottom space. Only the top copy is used, the bottom one is filler.

The nvram is 128k, and presents either the top or the bottom 64k to the ecm, depending if the bin_sw jumper is set. So what you want is to read a bin with the ose flashtool, stack it twice to make it 64k, and write it to a blank memcal.

The memcal sounds like its not blank. If its BMZA its BMZA, not blank. Did you replace the chip? What type of chip is it? You might need to erase it first.
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Re: New NVRAM setup

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Ok that makes alot more sense to me now.
I've already got the .bin using the flashtool so I'm half way there.
I just got told they were brand new blank memcals...so yeah I was abit sceptical when the failed the blank check but I'm also unsure exactly what size they are. I assume they are the same as a Vr v6 auto chip??
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try and read them first. generally you'd expect the whole thing to be FF. Blank memcals sounds a bit weird, I dont think anyone makes new ones, but there are pulls from the wreckers, and you can pull the chip off and install an eeprom style chip which supports electronic erase. (ee means electronic erase), which is much more convenient. Post a photo of the top with the lid off and/or the numbers off the top if you want us to help ID it.

Generally factory chips have a number that doesnt give much away and a sticker over a window in the top of the chip, which are the type that need a UV eraser to erase the contents. They can be used, but are a bit of pain.

Generally aftermarket chips start with a number of 27C or 29C depending on the type of the chip, then its size in bits. So 27C512 is UV erase (27C) 512kbits/8 (to convert to bytes) = 64k. 28C and 29C are both electronic erase types. If you want to read more detail see https://www.batronix.com/shop/electroni ... mming.html
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Re: New NVRAM setup

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Thanks for the reply. Ended up that they weren't blank and even after 20mins in the uv eraser still weren't blank. I did have the window uncovered. I had 3 sst chips in with the stuff he gave me. So I ended up soldering them onto a stock memcal and that worked fine.
The cars both ran well and have been fast since the dyno

Thank you to everyone that helped
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Sometimes in the eraser the light doesnt hit the whole chip, and you need to flip it over if its on an angle and come at it from the other side. Glad it worked out :thumbup:
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Re: New NVRAM setup

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Sorry off topic but new to this and the site, anyone point me in the right direction of buying a Delco 808 nvram board and a communication board, want it for a Holden 304 5l
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