Mini supercharger on 1zz

[shnazzle]

Haha someone else outed it already. Both here and on FB  s:) s:)

[jvanzyl]

oooooohhhh are you getting a kit installed??? When??

[Essex2Visuvesi]

That price is for 'labour'.  If I were doing that service I'd have to add pistons rings gaskets, timing gear, bearings and possibly valves and springs (all oem).  Why all that?  I wouldn't put a warranty on anything less.
Anyway.  
Gary, please don't request that cable until we have got together this weekend and had a go at sorting things, unless you're happy with the extra effort. We would need the access to the correct driver and computer set-up.  I don't think it's so much a cable issue as a driver and computer set-up issue.
The one you sent with the kit is trying to work.  It's more me not getting the computer to play nice.

Ok I'll drop him a message, hopefully he hasn't posted it yet!

[Carolyn]

See if he's got the driver and set-up info??

[jvanzyl]

Are you after the "guides"? I have all of the ones I could find here:

 m https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2QMt ... Ho5emNqdGs m

[Carolyn]

Thanks for that.  didn't have the support tool one.

[stewart@boro]

oooooohhhh are you getting a kit installed??? When??

Having a big think about it
waiting to see what Brexit has done to my pension investments first.  s:( s:(

[Essex2Visuvesi]

Ok had a chat with Janne and this was his method of setting up.

His first comment was that if you have been messing with drivers then to reinstall the Operating system so as to start with a clean system it seems the e-manage & software is very fussy when it comes to the correct drivers.
He also suggested "cloning" the hard drive once you have the basic XP build with all the updates etc as this makes for a faster recovery if things go wrong.
Download all the E-Manage Blue installer packages from  m http://revspec.com/Ultimate.htm m
Starting with V1.10 install ALL the packages (1.10, 1.11, 1.20 & the 1.25 Update) restarting the machine after every installation has completed.

He has also advised to stay away from USB - Serial Adaptors and use a laptop with a true serial port.  Even with the correct lead he had many connectivity & dropout issues when using a USB convertor.

If anyone is interested Janne runs a 88 toyota starlet with 4wd & huge turbo  s:D s:D

Hope this helps guys!

[Carolyn]

That is a MASSIVE help.  Jon - Stu are you getting all this??
I reckon I've already messed the puter up playing with it.....

[shnazzle]

Some of that isn't perse true. Sorry.
A driver is linked to a device. Windows won't just use another device driver you once had installed for the fun of it. If you look in the Device Manager you'll see it's linked to a specific driver library.

What does seem to be the case (as others have told me as well) is that it comes down to the serial to usb converters.
So yes, straight serial is the way forward. But, who they hell has a serial port???

What puzzles me is why quite a few people have had this working absolutely fine with the diy cable and even windows 7 laptops.

[shnazzle]

I'm going to grab a cable, cross over the read and write wires and get a terminal program. See if I can get it to transfer data accurately as a serial device.
If I can get that to work, then we know it's not the cable. Although, serial connections are very reliant on baudrate and have very primitive data correction/verification.

Maybe we need to set a parity bit on the port?

[The Other Stu]

That is a MASSIVE help.  Jon - Stu are you getting all this??
I reckon I've already messed the puter up playing with it.....

Yes, but no but  s;) s;)

I doubt you've done anything that can't be fixed quite quickly.
I'll bring the software on a stick.

[Essex2Visuvesi]

Some of that isn't perse true. Sorry.
A driver is linked to a device. Windows won't just use another device driver you once had installed for the fun of it.

It is however possible install outdated or "bodged" drivers which can still cause issues. This is especially true with the drivers that come with some of the cheaper USB convertors found in all sorts of devices like ODB cables etc. While they may install correctly they may not be 100% compatible with the chipset version of the device, causing data issues & timeouts

I think what he was trying to say is that starting with a "clean" install removes a lot of the variables

[Ardent]

Looking forward to seeing you all Sunday and watching you go to work.

Still only November, but, mince pies anyone?

[jonbill]

I'm sure we can fix it.  Did you say your laptop does have a std serial port Carolyn? Using that would make it a little simpler (with a serial cable, obvs[SMILING FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH])

[Carolyn]

Yes.  It's an older high quality machine with freshly installed XP and a proper serial port (all provided by Other Stu).

Got the serial cable you pointed out on the way.  Should be here today.

I'll bring the lot with me on Sunday......

[jvanzyl]

Just a thought here - do we have a power supply available to us on the day? It's just that a lot these lovely older machines have literally no battery life and probably need to stay plugged in in order to work.

[Carolyn]

I'll pop up there and check.  Only fair to let them know we're descending on them.

[The Other Stu]

Just a thought here - do we have a power supply available to us on the day? It's just that a lot these lovely older machines have literally no battery life and probably need to stay plugged in in order to work.

I was going to bring a 300w inverter. Small as my suitcase generator is, I don't think it would fit in the two along with 2 adults.
Should be enough, I think.

[Carolyn]

Plug socket available.  I refer you all to the events section for up to date info re Sywell.

[shnazzle]

In business  s:) s:)  

[Carolyn]

Well, that's hopeful.  It's no good telling me how you did it...  but Stu and Jon would actually comprehend.

[shnazzle]

It's actually very simple.
The green and white wires need to be crossed on the cable. Then I got the latest driver (Prolific for the PL-2303HXA chipset I have in my converter) and installed it.
Then plugged in the cable with the converter side in the laptop.
Go into device manager and see if it has loaded correctly. It didn't. I bumped into the connector and all of a sudden the yellow warning triangle disappeared.  AHA!! My stupid connector isn't 100%!
So I need to plug it in and bend it up a bit. Perfecto.

Then I installed the support tool v1.11. Then copied all files except eUp.exe and eUp.ini from the 1.49 zip and pasted them on top of the files that the 1.11 installer installed. (program filestrustgreddy).

Went into car. Plugged in the other side of the cable into emanage. Key in ignition and set to ACC.
Nothing...
Checked com-port...all good. Set key to ON.
BINGO!!

Just did a run out and logged some data. Good fun

Oh, and this is on Windows7

[Carolyn]

So there has to be power to the emange to communicate?

[shnazzle]

Oh yes definitely.