Ciao

Hymee , would your sCANalyser be a suitable mod for a Greddy turbo kit ? If so , How?

truemagellen

absolutely :D...you can monitor all your engine sensors while you are tuning :D

I'll let the engineers elaborate

and again thank you Hymee...the exhaust is incredible!

Ciao

How accurate is it ? I hear the onboard computor is plus or minus 20% out . The reason why I say this is some US guys are getting dodgy AFR readings.

sco

Hymee's opinion on onboard Wideband O2 sensor accuracy is here: https://www.rx8club.com/showpost.php...&postcount=421

Were those AFR readings using lambda or were they using an estimate of the stoichiometric ratio for the fuel?

Ciao

The AFR readings were used in accordance with the Canzoomer canscan and the LM1 which were used on the car using a bung in the exhaust
They discovered the onboard ecu was sending conflicting AFR's

xxup

Do you guys have a minimum spec for the PC needed to run the Scanalyser software? Some of us will have problems accessing a quad Pentium 4 4Ghz with 1Gb ram and 3Tb of disk space... :D

truemagellen

I was running it on a 700mhz, 128mb laptop with a crappy older Nvidia graphics chipset and unfortunately the resource hungry Windows XP...

ran perfectly with 4 gauges up, the graphics of the needle sweeping was not as smooth but gauges were reporting properly with 6 gauges up...this was in full graphics mode with a fancy background image on the program and a maximized window...when optimized I think even this laptop could display 6 gauges perfectly in a maximized window.

sco

I've got a 333Mhz Pentium II laptop with 128MB RAM at the moment... I'm going to test on that and report back.

truemagellan has hit the nail on the head... you can run sCANalyser on low end machines, but if the machine is not fast enough the gauges won't refresh quickly and can become "jerky" in appearance. It all depends on your video system, CPU, resolution and colour depth.

xxup - what sort of system are you planning to run it on?

timbo

While I have a big, grunty Tosh, I am quite keen to try it on an old ThinkPad 240 (300 Mhz Celeron) I have lying around, as it's little (10" screen), light and can be hidden easily.....


.....when it comes

Tim Tam

Timbo, keep it clean! There could be women and children listening in.

:D

timbo

ooops! (...as the actress said to the bishop..)

xxup

I do have an old laptop (Dell Pentium II 233Mhz Windows 98) that we take on holidays for mobile internet services and for route planning using the Magellan Discover Australia software.. It is a bit tired and we are looking at replacing it... I just wanted an idea of how powerful the beast needs to be.. I was thinking of a small screen thin notebook running XP with a video out that fed to a screen like yours through some sort of video switch... I noticed that Scanalyser seems to need .NET..

Adrian

Rasputin

Hymee once told me that .NET was available for Windows 98. I have an even older laptop running Win 95 and I'am thinking about upgrading it to 98 for the only purpose of running engineering software, like sCANalyser Live.

Jambos

Hymee

When can we expect the sCANalyser for an iPAQ pocket PC?, and how much can we expect to pay for the connector plus software ?

Laurence

Tim Tam

Don't distract him, he's meant to be working on my exhaust!

truemagellen

it is a damn fine exhaust indeed :D I love it!

sco

Pocket PC version is under development. Availability date and pricing are both yet to be set... as soon as we have something firmed up I'll make sure we post it.

sco

First let me address a couple of things:
1. Yes, sCANalyser is running on the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1
2. I don't think there is much in the way of new laptops you can get these days that aren't grunty enough to run sCANalyser. I regularly run it on a 1.6Ghz Pentium M at 1400x1050 with no hassles.

I've just finished a bit of testing with the 333Mhz Pentium II notebook I mentioned earlier. By the looks of it, 333Mhz isn't enough grunt to run the gauges properly. Everything else works fine. Both truemagellan and I have had success with a 700Mhz Pentium, so I I'll set the minimum system requirements at that.

I'll have a look at the performance post initial release and see if there is anything I can do to get it working better on slower machines.

How does the following sound? -- How about an option where there are nice big text displays for the readings (but no sexy gauges) for slower machines?

xxup

Yes please...

lexic

That'll broaden your market to those of us whose wives control the money and say "what do you need a new one for??? The old one still works perfectly fine!!"

sco

Many of you already probably know but just in case.. we've launched sCANalyser Live... www.hymee.com/scanalyser.htm

I've had a report that sCANalyser worked on a sub 400Mhz notebook with Windows XP... however, it's not an "officially supported configuration".

I've got on my list a task to see what we can do to improve performance on low end machines (on top of text only readouts). Things may improve for low end machines in a future release if I can find some way to squeeze some more performance out of the software on low end machines.

xxup

A week ago I thought that this was a good idea, but the reality is that even a Pentium 500 must be at least 5 years old.. With a Pentium II 233 It is certainly time for me to upgrade..

I am not even sure that the palm\Ipaq etc is a good idea.. While the small size is good - you probably can't read anything from a distance and displaying six gauges is going to be impossible..

It is a good time to buy notebooks at the moment... The sales are on... The biggest risk for me is the USB to Serial.. Choose the wrong one and your life can be a misery..

I wonder if the development effort might be better expended on getting a "remaining range" option in version 1.3??? Graphs are good, but please don't use any MS Office functions as I only use OpenOffice and I refuse to pay $1,000 for software to do a home budget and some (rare) letters..

sco

When graphs are integrated into the product they won't be relying on any external functionality.

timbo

I have certainly run sCANalyser on an IBM Thinkpad 240, which I think was introduced in 1999. It has a 300mHz Celeron processor, with maximum RAM of 192Mb shared between the processor and the display.

sCANalayser works pretty well with this configuration, in my opinion -- it would be 'adequate' for the hobbyist dipping toe into the capabilities of the software. The main issue is the display noticeably slows when you have 6 gauges up, and live. However, there is no problem with logging -- this little unit will happily suck in the data for as long as its battery lasts

I just tried this little machine to see if it would work, and it does. However, I have used sCANalyser more regularly with my Toshiba M2, which is a Pentium M 1.6 with no legacy (serial) ports -- about a $3K machine, probably less today. I use a Targus USB-Serial adapter which works fine so long as you remember the adapter becomes Comm4 in setting the port on sCANalyser (which is not always easy to figure out when you are sitting out somewhere in your car :o )

timbo

sco, the performance challenge is going to arise when you port this to Windows CE (or whatever it's called these days), although I assume the objective there is use a Pocket PC as a logging device more than a live display ....although you should be able to fit 6 digital guages on a PDA screen :p