Technomotove Datalogger troubleshooting

[Turbo Talon DL]

I have the Technomotive datalogger software. Im trying to use it on my stock ecu. The software is on a laptop with Windows XP as the OSF. Every time that i've tried to get the ecu and the software on the laptop to connect, it acts as if nothing is hooked up. It can be hooked up, and run as if you havent done anything. The CPU recognizes the usb cable being hooked up, and the car is putting out diagnostic info. I checked with an analog meter, ecu is healthy. I checked the cable last night with the meter also, only couple places on the cable i did NOT get continunity were pin 5 on the serial connector and on the diagnostic port connector pin 1, pin 3 serial connector and pin 1 on the diag. connector, pin 2 on the serial connector had no continunity between the diag cable at all. The yellow power lead has continunity between pins 8 and 12 on the diag connector, and pin 5 on the serial connector. I did hook the yellow lead into good power sources in the fuse box as per the TMO installation instructions. I did do a search on this. If you care to do one to make sure I actually did one, go ahead. I looked on the TMO FAQ, and the VFAQ link somebody posted in a previous thread. No troubleshooting related material. Im using a male usb serial cable to the female serial cable for the diag. cable cause the laptop doesnt have the a serial data port (the one with 9 pins.) The only 3 pins used on the serial connector are pins 2, 3, and 5. If you have the TMO datalogging stuff then you know what im talkin about in reference to which pins have continunity between. Im desperate Somebody has to be able to help me out. PM me with anything important that you find helpful. I'd prefer somebody with TMO only reply, unless you no sh*t know about this.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

nobody huh? as many people here that lay claim to knowing so much, this really surprises me
Is it that nobody understands my explanation or what?...C'mon....

 

[Burnett03]

nobody huh? as many people here that lay claim to knowing so much, this really surprises me
Is it that nobody understands my explanation or what?...C'mon....

smart ass comments like this wont get you anyhelp....

I assume you are using some sort of USB to serial adaptor? Thats most likely your problem.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

smart ass comments like this wont get you anyhelp....

I assume you are using some sort of USB to serial adaptor? Thats most likely your problem.

Why are USB -->> Serial adaptors bad? I dont understand why they dont work. The laptop doesnt have a serial port. This cable has a 9 pin connector, 5 on top, 4 on the bottom. The laptop has some sort of 3 row, 15 pin connector. My comment was just a result of the 'FRUSTRATION FACTOR' All DSMers are victim of this. Nothing personal.

 

[Quasimondo]

They're not bad. I use one to hotsync my palm pilot. Do you have the driver for it? The driver software would assign a COM port, something like COM5 or COM6. Then you'd have to tell the TMO software to talk to the ecu off of that COM port, which is really the USB adapter.

 

[Talesin]

A) USB -> Serial adaptors don't work over half the time for datalogger cables. Their driver support tends to be weak, and faulty. Only a very few manufacturers' adaptors will SOMETIMES work. If you read the instructions that come with most datalog cables, they say DO NOT USE A USB->SERIAL ADAPTOR. There's a reason.

B) That 'three row of five' connector is an external monitor connector, usually VGA or SVGA, if you have a TFT or CRT monitor that you want to use (aka: bigger than your laptop screen).

C) A Palm with a serial hotsync cable is cheap.

D) A laptop with a serial connector is fairly old, and thereby usually cheap. This also saves your shiny whiz-bang laptop from lateral force damage if you corner hard. Remember, you have a hard drive (gyroscope) spinning in there, with micrometers, if not nanometers of clearance between the plates and the head. And if the heads touch the plates, they get scratched. And you get bad blocks. And if they keep touching (g-forces holding the head against the plate) you'll get a nice long segment of bad blocks all over your HDD, not to mention quite possibly screw your read/write heads over ENTIRELY.

E) When asking for help, do not be rude or abrasive. It just makes you seem like a complete ass.

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

Oh well, i guess im the exception this time around, my usb-->> serial adaptor works with my TMO logger setup Thanks for the replies. This thread can be closed now..

 

[Turbo Talon DL]

Oh well, i guess im the exception this time around, my usb-->> serial adaptor works with my TMO logger setup Thanks for the replies. This thread can be closed now..

Ok, I started this thread a few months ago, but again, am having trouble with my TMO shizznit again... I went out and "tried" to log some runs, but the damn thing wouldnt collect data for sh*t. It would transfer/collect for about 15 sec with one thing selected, such as o2 voltage. But after that, nothing. Even after a 2 min log, nothing... Who else has this and is using it successfully? Please, PM me if you have any success stories. I'd like to make sure im not knocking and pulling timing, and would also like to know why my car is slow...

 

[92awddsm]

Ok, I started this thread a few months ago, but again, am having trouble with my TMO shizznit again... I went out and "tried" to log some runs, but the damn thing wouldnt collect data for sh*t. It would transfer/collect for about 15 sec with one thing selected, such as o2 voltage. But after that, nothing. Even after a 2 min log, nothing... Who else has this and is using it successfully? Please, PM me if you have any success stories. I'd like to make sure im not knocking and pulling timing, and would also like to know why my car is slow...

No ofense but the tmo software is obsolete so why do you use it? I would honestly suggest buying a palm m100($15-20 on ebay), a null modem converter for the cable you have($2-5 on ebay) and downloadind mmcd for the palm(free) and then you would have reliable logging software. You would also be able to find room on the dash to mount the palm instead of having the laptop slidinig around in the pass seat while you try to log. http://mmcdtools.sourceforge.net/

 

[hose101772]

Supposedly,The KEYSPAN high speed is the only one that works.After trying a cheap adapter that wouldn't work I ordered one of the KEYSPANs.Works perfect on TMO.