Data Logging - What Do You Use
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Data Logging - What Do You Use
I run a stock PCM and have HP Tuners and can data log with a laptop.
The problem with this approach is it requires a laptop in the car while you're racing. Not as easy as it sounds given you have to start the data logging in HPT every time the car restarts and I can't really be fiddling with the laptop once I'm harnessed in with a helmet/HANS on.
Are there are fairly easy ways to data log? I don't mind downloading the data with my laptop, but I don't want a laptop on the passenger seat while I'm driving 140+. Thanks
The problem with this approach is it requires a laptop in the car while you're racing. Not as easy as it sounds given you have to start the data logging in HPT every time the car restarts and I can't really be fiddling with the laptop once I'm harnessed in with a helmet/HANS on.
Are there are fairly easy ways to data log? I don't mind downloading the data with my laptop, but I don't want a laptop on the passenger seat while I'm driving 140+. Thanks
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Your HP tuners should have datalogging built into the box. Mine does. Maybe that is the pro only version but I thought they all had it. Just setup the logging with the laptop then hit the button on the front of the box.
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Efilive blackbox datalogging usually. It is such a pain to use a laptop that has to connect then start logging while your moving in staging lanes. HPTuners pro should have tbe same ability
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That's a Pro only feature. Standard cannot do that. With Standard you have to have the laptop present and running.
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First you need to write your .cfg file once to the blackbox, so it knows what parameters to log. Open the HPT Scanner and goto: Scan > MVPI Pro data logging.
After you write the .cfg, then you can datalog anytime using the blackbox. Just hold the button a couple seconds until the record light goes red. Use the same Scanner menu to read/erase the files afterwards. I've logged a whole hour of data and wasn't full yet.
After you write the .cfg, then you can datalog anytime using the blackbox. Just hold the button a couple seconds until the record light goes red. Use the same Scanner menu to read/erase the files afterwards. I've logged a whole hour of data and wasn't full yet.
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I've had hptuners pro for over a year and just found this feature out a week ago. lol I was to excited to start logging and adjusting the tune that I didn't read all the features. I've tried to do real time tuning but it always crashes.
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pretty cool, I just recently got hptuners and am still learning how to use it... can you save multiple logs or only one?... I've noticed when using the laptop you have to save each log before starting a new one or the previous log will be deleted... it would be nice if you didn't have to plug the box into the laptop every time to save each log before starting the next one
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pretty cool, I just recently got hptuners and am still learning how to use it... can you save multiple logs or only one?... I've noticed when using the laptop you have to save each log before starting a new one or the previous log will be deleted... it would be nice if you didn't have to plug the box into the laptop every time to save each log before starting the next one
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First you need to write your .cfg file once to the blackbox, so it knows what parameters to log. Open the HPT Scanner and goto: Scan > MVPI Pro data logging.
After you write the .cfg, then you can datalog anytime using the blackbox. Just hold the button a couple seconds until the record light goes red. Use the same Scanner menu to read/erase the files afterwards. I've logged a whole hour of data and wasn't full yet.
After you write the .cfg, then you can datalog anytime using the blackbox. Just hold the button a couple seconds until the record light goes red. Use the same Scanner menu to read/erase the files afterwards. I've logged a whole hour of data and wasn't full yet.
I have Pro but never knew how to use the remote logger feature. I love logging but hate having to throw the laptop in there every time I decide to make a hit.. Where as I always have the HPT cord/black box in the car..
I'll have to learn how to do this.
I use Innovate LM1/LMA3 aux box combos on both my turbo bike and my 71'.. They are always in the car/bike and always ready to log... Just hit the button anytime and it starts.. It logs 44 mins of data. Works great. Way easier to setup and config then HPT and their stupid pid/inputs etc etc and the other crap you have to "create".
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