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awesome work alex, keep up the good work

Hmm, a question, though I understand it may be difficult to implement:
Any chance the knob box could be used to change correction maps? Like if we have a n/a tune of an engine, or light load, it might be useful to be able to tweak the correcton tables with the knob box instead of the base fuel/ignition. I'd especially like this for 3D ignition MAP correction. To be honest it'd be a "nice to have" and I'm not sure how you'd implement it so it's clear what tables are being changed... was just a thought.

With the new software, this sort of thing will be easy, as in a couple of hours work instead of a couple of days.
I'm on holiday (yes, I know), so if it gets missed, remind me at some point.

Alex DTA wrote: One of the best features of the current software is it's usability, and I'm going to make sure that stays the same.

From a real time tuning point of view on the main tables....I would very much disagree with that comment about mapping functionality.

No proper easy real means of making changes was always a huge gripe and one I had emailed Allan many times about to no avail.
Compared to many other setups, it has always been lacking and cumbersome although the S-series did improve matter over the older stuff...but only just a little.

But Allan always seemed to be of the opinion all tuning should take place, steady state on a dyno...via the dyno box.

Which is ok if you own a dyno like he did. lol.

My mapper always fine tunes on the road, not sure what you mean about being difficult?

welshpug wrote:My mapper always fine tunes on the road, not sure what you mean about being difficult?

An extra key-press to store it to the ECU, it doesn't update changes live unless using knob box.
It's not difficult once used to it, and I think it's a factor of using the particular chip as I know of another ECU using the same family of chip which works the same way.

oh.

he uses a knobs box

welshpug wrote:oh.

he uses a knobs box

Likewise - it's one of the best features of the ecu.

Any news on the rewrite? I really like the new look.

Thanks

Plowing on through it. Unfortunately there's a huge amount of work going in to it, but I can't actually show any of it, as it's just getting the framework together.

However, I'm going to post a video of the real time display soon.