V2 Data logging
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You can add an OBD port for little bit of nothing. Not sure how it well it will log with both hooked up.
http://www.btdieselworks.com/collections/electrical-connectors/products/obd-2-connector
http://www.btdieselworks.com/collections/electrical-connectors/products/obd-2-connector
You can find a 90* OBDII pass through splitter for your Edge. I read a post in the EFILive forum yesterday that had an example of one but no feed back on how well it worked using the Edge and or a V2/Autocal
V2 Data logging
I need some help, I have tried to post some questions on the EFI Live forum and can't get them to post. Anyway I am trying to data log with my V2 but can't get the PIDs to load into the V2, I only have 6 PIDs selected but it is saying space required 112% and will not let me load them. Even if I delete some of the PIDs it still says Space Required 112% I have formated my SD card and made sure it is empty. I have been working at this for a day now and am about ready to take a hammer to it.
I need some help, I have tried to post some questions on the EFI Live forum and can't get them to post. Anyway I am trying to data log with my V2 but can't get the PIDs to load into the V2, I only have 6 PIDs selected but it is saying space required 112% and will not let me load them. Even if I delete some of the PIDs it still says Space Required 112% I have formated my SD card and made sure it is empty. I have been working at this for a day now and am about ready to take a hammer to it.
You need to format the V2, not just the SD card. They accumulate old BBX files. I believe the command is in the drop down arrow of the Program button.
If there does end up being a conflict with the Edge and V2, I would just use the V2. You can put the font on large, and put Boost and Trans Temp on the display as it logs. Not as pretty as the Edge, but it works. That's what I do at the track.
You can also get more involved and set alarms when you are over/under your boost target, so you don't even have to look at the display when staging. It will scream at you all the way down the track, though, since the boost goes through the roof.
If there does end up being a conflict with the Edge and V2, I would just use the V2. You can put the font on large, and put Boost and Trans Temp on the display as it logs. Not as pretty as the Edge, but it works. That's what I do at the track.
You can also get more involved and set alarms when you are over/under your boost target, so you don't even have to look at the display when staging. It will scream at you all the way down the track, though, since the boost goes through the roof.
DAVe3283, thread jack for a moment, the 82 PU you have is a diesel and does the owners manual say not for towing?
I don't think I have ever read the owners manual, but I have read most of the service manual. Never heard anything about not towing. We've towed way too much with that poor truck. It towed a great big 5th wheel camp trailer for the first 10 years of its life, and lived to tell the tale. Then on the farm, we overloaded it so much it finally collapsed a leaf spring pack (> 3000 lbs in the bed at the time). Mind you, this truck is a 1980's half ton.
The engine is a dog, though. Gets good mileage (I've seen over 20, still gets 16-17 most tanks), but absolutely no power. It never met a hill it couldn't downshift into 2nd on.
Anyway, sorry for the derail. If you want to know more about the truck, shoot me a PM!
Moneypitt: let us know if you can program the V2 after clearing the existing data off it.
I made sure there was no data files on the V2, there were the tunes I flashed into the truck but I erased them. The strange thing is I can delete PIDs from the list and it does not reduce the space required. I figured I would just go by RPM at launch but if I can get the V2 to cooperate and display boost I will do that.
The data partition is not the same as the system partition. You need to format that too.
The other thing to do is make sure you are running the latest version of the V8 software. I'd update V7 while you are at it. Hopefully one of those two things will take care of the issue where it is stuck above 100%.
Aah, right! Forgot about those!Ok I figured it out, I had all the DTC descriptions enabled
Glad you got it figured out, and thanks for sharing the solution.
moneypitt, post the sequence you use to retrieve them, I've looked on EFI forums and some of the step by step do not make a lot sense at least to me. Yours just might help out.
I kinda have to live by this now, what make sense to one is absolute gibberish to another, just need one little piece of the puzzle to make it work. I have managed a few things with EFI and still monkeying with it, still have to install a DSP-5 tune and a switch and learn more about logging.
I kinda have to live by this now, what make sense to one is absolute gibberish to another, just need one little piece of the puzzle to make it work. I have managed a few things with EFI and still monkeying with it, still have to install a DSP-5 tune and a switch and learn more about logging.
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You use the EFILive Explorer program to pull them off of the V2. I usually just drag them to the desktop to a folder.
Thanks that helped, so you have to make dashboards to view the logs. I think what is so confusing is having to go from one program to the next to do one thing
Thanks that helped, so you have to make dashboards to view the logs. I think what is so confusing is having to go from one program to the next to do one thing
Had my head fawked up til I read the PDF several times trying to load a tune into the V2.....:woott: