Would anybody like to store the "tune" on
a PC
and be able to look at a graphic of the
whole table as it changed
with RPM and MAP? In other words a
graphic 3D over view
of the fuel injector table. Great for
understanding what is
going on.
Handy for trouble shooting when the
injectors are staged.
Paul Lamar
Sure i am interested
Jean Prudhomme
I too would love this. I think someone at the Texas
Rotary Roundup a
couple of months ago had something he was using, but it
was not yet
ready for "prime time". There MAY have been some
discussion about
making it available. I know I would like it
especially IF it were not
outside my electronic skill set to be able to use.
IIRC, he had a
serial interface cable that would link to the PC and then
some software
which would provide data.
I understand Tracy's desire to be able to program
everything w/o a PC,
especially in the air AND based on when it was first
developed, however,
with $200.00 netbook computers and so much initial
development on the
ground, I would love to be able to "see" more of what I am
doing via a
netbook/notebook 'puter. FWIW.
All the best,
Chris Barber
Houston
wings back on my Velo hoping to restart after my EC2's
round robin to Tracy <g
Paul,
You are correct, Ed's instrument is not an addition to
Tracy's it is
INSTEAD of. IIRC, he developed it when Tracy did not
have one. I spoke
to Ed about it at the Texas Roundup and asked about using
it too, but he
assured me it was not needed if I had Tracy's unit.
It is more
colorful, but is redundant.
The other unit I was speaking of is different and works
thorough a
serial interface to a PC and I believe allows data logging
from the EC2
(which is an add on in the newer EC3) and lets you see
more/most/all (?)
of the MAP table.
Chris Barber
Houston
Do you have a web site address on it?
Paul Lamar
Chris,
Steve Bose (sp?) had the data logger he was using with Tracy's controller.
He did a demo at the Rotary Roundup earlier this year.
No charge for the software, just make your own interface box (couple
of IC's).
Tom
Anybody have Steve's email address?
Paul Lamar
Steve's address is
sboese@uwyo.edu
You don't need to build anything to use it. You need to connect your
PC RS-232 interface to the signal in and out pins on the EC2, plus the
+5V pin ground pin. Steve makes the connections with a triple
connector that he plugs in between the EC2 and the Cable. It would be
fairly easy to add the wires needed right in the EC2 cable. It would
conflict with use of the EM2.
You do need to buy a converter to change the 5V ASCII signals to
RS-232 levels. I also found a converter that accepts 5V signals and
converts it to directly to an RS-232 port by plugging into a USB port.
The program is a compiled NSBASIC program that runs as an exe under
Windows. I haven't used it yet since my EC2 isn't operational, but the
program seems to run fine.
Bob W.
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Thanks Bob.
Are you still making wiring harnesses for Tracy's
early computers. If so I want to order one. I am going to get
it up an running on the RX8 p-port engine on my prop dyno.
I think I have an EC1 built in about 1998. It may be an EC2.
It has a 39 pin D connector on the top.
Paul Lamar
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