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Right here goes

As my other post dont seem to be having much luck

Got a dash2 and dl1 last week new , plugged it all in serial cable wise to my Autronic smc ecu ,connected only the 4 menu buttons and 12v 0v but only seems to be working on gps readings only, no ecu communication.

As my other thread the dash shift lights are flashing all the time as well, wether thats anything to do with , I dont know

As anyone any advice?

Or am i daft

Cheers Adam

Hi Adam,
Can you please email me directly, mhill at race-technology.com and explain to me exactly how you have connected the DASH2 and DL1 to your ECU. There is no mention of an ECU interface in the connections. You will need an ECU interface in there which must be powered. You can check that it is getting power by sending commands from the DASH2 to the DL1 (start / stop logging for example). The DL1 will need to be configured to retransmit the received serial data on the serial port. You can test the ECU interface by itself by connecting the output of the ECU interface to a PC and monitoring the data using the lite monitor application.
Regards,
Martin

Sorted the light flashing

No luck with the ecu

Anyone else done this?

Ive enabled the serial incoming data , all leads in ok power to the serial lead??

When I use lite monitor I only get readings from analogues 17-20 around 9hz flashing fast?

Ive also looked in my autronic smc software to see if there is a enabled tab for output

Any ideas guys

Might not be relevant, but when I have issues with data communication in test equipment, I try to isolate the problem one step at a time.

Is the DL1 working properly?
Is it outputting serial data properly to the monitor program?
Is the Dash2 working as a standalone device (displaying it's own analog data properly)?
Is your ECU sending out serial data properly to a computer (hyper terminal)?


There is also a "Pulses per rev" setting in the Dash2 setup program. Perhaps that is not correct?

Not sure on some of the answers mate but this is what I know

The speed seems to work on the dash2 from the dl1
The revs work also but from hard wire from my ecu
The gear selector works but not right settings , but close

When I connect my laptop to the ecu I can alter the settings

Not sure about anything else , still getting to grips with it

Cheers Adam

Anyone

If you can read the revs, then all I can think is that you have a setting incorrect that causes the dash to think you are at the rev limit.

The revs work mate throu the dl1 as hard wire only but not from ecu as the serial lead adapter is suppose to

its the ecu it doesnt seem to read data from that ?

Still dont work

I read a post a while ago where a support guy asked for a bit of serial data to decode.

Since you can read hardwire RPM, but not serial data, it's either your ECU isn't sending good data or your DL1 isn't decoding it properly.

Can you hook up a laptop to your ECU and read the data stream through hyper-terminal?

Not sure mate

I can hook up my laptop with the Autronic software thou , no probs

Still dont work

And still no response

You need to configure the DL1 to read rpm from the ecu interface not the dedicated input, to do this you need to use the DL1 configuration software, save it to the flash card, then plug the card 'hot' into the DL1.

Adam, did you read post 2 in this thread

email Martin