Couldnt really find a section for this..

[antus]

Actually I may have mis-interpretted that write command. That may be for ram, and so im not sure how to the save on power off is implemented. I can see it could be built in to hardware, and if its not a native function of the chip I assume it would be but I have not seen the schematics.

I think some of the topwin programmers can do it, or I can find some other chinese ones that can, but I dont know where to get them

http://www.tootoo.com/s-ps/auto-program ... 58090.html
http://www.ec21.com/product-details/Atu ... 74149.html

There also appears to be a Xicor 24c44 which I dont know if its compatible part, but sounds similar... so many questions, not enough answers

[The1]

If it helps i can take some high res shots of the board so you can look at traces.

just for s&g's tried reading with 93c46 and got this. The cluster has 348982km

[vn5000]

Ive got a topwin 2004 and it doesnt have 24c44 but has 24c32 and 24c64.
I remember a member dec head had a post about how he was reading/hacking these speedo units about a year ago .
Does anyone know what happened to dec_ head ,he used to post all the time and then dissapeared.

[VL400]

Both of my programmers dont support it So would need to be a pic/avr to read it like festy suggested. Would be interesting to get the MCU code out too

[The1]

yeh i dont have pic or avr to try with. You'd have one VL?

[festy]

If it helps i can take some high res shots of the board so you can look at traces.

just for s&g's tried reading with 93c46 and got this. The cluster had 350,000km from memory

Don't suppose the odometer reading might have been 247,000km instead of 350? Does it still work?

Edit - if your chip read worked, the data in the eeprom might look like this:

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00000000  ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 ff  ff ff ff ff ff ff d3 2c  |...............,|
00000010  00 00 00 00 00 00 25 da  00 00 00 00 00 00 09 f6  |......%.........|
00000020

[The1]

yeh it was definatly in the 300,000km range last time i fired it up, yep it was working last time i used it, though i flogged the lcd driver board off it to fix another trip unit so i havn't had it powered up since. im happy to post this chip in an envelope to someone who can read it. As long as i get it back at some point. Or what pic/avr would i need to buy, if there not much i might get one to play with.

[The1]

ive got another L3 cluster here somewhere i can prob get the chip off it to if need be.

[festy]

318,750km sound familiar maybe?

[VL400]

Grab an arduino and have a play, will be able to have it read the data really easily. Would be good to read it, run it for a few kms and compare so the checksum can be worked out too.