Subject: PC interface for Tracy's EFI
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 8/14/2009, 7:51 PM
To: AAA Put this in the To box


   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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