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[80gus]

Has anybody taken a read from a FG v8 as yet that I could try? I have a ECU I'd like to try Rolls recovery on, it's a APS 221 but will try anything Fb v8 as this ECU paper weight at the moment, Was removed from a damaged vechile that was running when crashed been parked up for years and can't be read by any software as yet.

[rolls]

Just sent out the new version. Let me know if recovery mode works.

Gus I saw your PM but didn't get a chance to respond. I don't have a repository however I do have close to every single PHF file for all black/spanish oaks. I will write something that can build a .BIN file from these at some stage. Maybe then someone can catagorise the PHF files and make a list of what is manual, turbo etc. Be easy enough to automate but is near the bottom of my list of things to do.

[Tazzi]

I'm using insecure gmail authentication to send the reports as I don't have a webserver. It works from windows 7 but may not from xp. If the time is out gmail probably rejects it as spam.

Lack of FEPS makes sense for that error! Good to know.

I removed the FEPS voltage read back as it doesn't work properly with most cables. Be nice if it did as I could detect that error properly.

Nah, using fresh Win7 install so I could use your tool. I think its having a huff due to date and time dont match real life settings (To keep IDS hunky dorey).

Yeah, remove the FEPs read back. Just have a check box to enable/disable FEPs or a button to do that.
Eventually, it will probably be easiest to just have a supported cables dropdown box so the process can be automated for cables that support it, and others can have a message box indicating to apply voltage to required pin.

[rolls]

This tool is really just a proof of concept for my library. I'm almost at the point where I will no longer update it and port everything over the editor application as I've got DMR, flash read/write working which is about all I set out to do with it.

Now to merge it with the editor proof of concept and the WPF program I started on a few weeks back.

[Tazzi]

This tool is really just a proof of concept for my library. I'm almost at the point where I will no longer update it and port everything over the editor application as I've got DMR, flash read/write working which is about all I set out to do with it.

Now to merge it with the editor proof of concept and the WPF program I started on a few weeks back.

Ill log what IDS does shortly for live data.. I recon that will be the way to go. Should be easier to identify PIDs which are supported if IDS records the way I think they do.

[rolls]

I've already got a huge list of PIDs, easy enough to just brute force them at startup.

Personally I'm. More interested in dmrs for map tracing, otherwise how do you really know it is the correct value. Eg with hpt tuning with PIDs sucks, dmr is the only way.

[Tazzi]

I've already got a huge list of PIDs, easy enough to just brute force them at startup.

Personally I'm. More interested in dmrs for map tracing, otherwise how do you really know it is the correct value. Eg with hpt tuning with PIDs sucks, dmr is the only way.

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking

Whys that? Whats the frames per second with HPT??

[rolls]

The the problem is you don't know how they correlate to the maps, eg which table am I using and what does this pid have to do with any of them. I back calculated speed density and compared it to actual speed density and there was about a 20% error, hence what is the point of datalogging if you don't even know what the value is?

I want to be 100% sure what I'm datalogging is what I think it is otherwise you chase your tail when tuning. That is my goal, make it obvious and to remove all guesswork.

[Tazzi]

The the problem is you don't know how they correlate to the maps, eg which table am I using and what does this pid have to do with any of them. I back calculated speed density and compared it to actual speed density and there was about a 20% error, hence what is the point of datalogging if you don't even know what the value is?

I want to be 100% sure what I'm datalogging is what I think it is otherwise you chase your tail when tuning. That is my goal, make it obvious and to remove all guesswork.

Ah wow! Thats actually pretty interesting. Makes sense

[Tazzi]

OoOoOoOooo.. ebay specials arrived!
BA FPV ecu. Will grab a read shortly.

Rolls, is there something I can do to help with the DMR? Is there any application which uses DMR?