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General Discussion Area / Re: one the subject of phones...

« on: 21 January 2008, 22:01:56 »

I've got one of these in the loft:

http://www.storno.co.uk/storno_cqm600.htm

Kevin

We used to use that kit day and daily and we thought we were the bees knees at the time!!  

Well, you certainly wouldn't break one in a hurry.

[anorak]
I tweaked my one to work on the 2m amateur radio band and it gave me what amounted to a very slow internet connection at home via packet radio - in 1986.
[/anorak]

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: one the subject of phones...

« on: 21 January 2008, 21:55:55 »

I've got one of these in the loft:

http://www.storno.co.uk/storno_cqm600.htm

Kevin

33183

General Discussion Area / Re: Nice engine

« on: 21 January 2008, 22:04:33 »

Be no good on a cold day and your late for work would it!

I reckon you'd probably make up the lost time pretty quick once it'd warmed up though.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nice engine

« on: 21 January 2008, 21:28:14 »

You think its safety glass those chaps are sitting behind?  Would certainly sting a bit if it lets got and something clips you on the way by......  

Hope so.

I saw a 1.8 Rover K series making over 250BHP on a  rolling road once.. As it passed through about 8K RPM it occurred to be that I was standing at a tangent to all the rotating parts so I relocated myself behind the car

Couple of weeks later at a track the scavenge pump belt came off, went into the cam belt and all hell broke loose. Bye bye K series

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Nice engine

« on: 21 January 2008, 20:37:52 »

Yeah.. See all that fuel that's pi$$ing into the intake trumpets?

I think that's what I'd get fed up with...

Very impressive that it holds together at all though

It'd need a rebuild once a week with the mileage most of us do

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: Ha Ha

« on: 21 January 2008, 23:30:02 »

The first one scared me so that  I was dropping from the chair

It reminded me I'm overdue for a check-up with the dentist.

Kevin

33187

General Discussion Area / Re: oooooooh

« on: 21 January 2008, 23:25:27 »

ive just returned a zafira that was impossible to pull away from stand still smoothly do you think that used  DBW.

Could well be. Obviously the consequences of such a system going bezerk are not good so they have two sensors each to measure both the throttle position and the accelerator pedal position and if any of them go out of kilter they go into a limp-home mode where it just gives you a fast idle.

Could also be a traction control system with duff wheels sensors, if it has such a thing.

Kevin

33188

General Discussion Area / Re: oooooooh

« on: 21 January 2008, 21:50:08 »

Doesn't say it'll do anything other than CAN in which case it won't work on an Omega.

TBH, it probably doesn't have much more functionality than a software solution that costs 1/10th as much. You pay a lot for having it stand-alone. Handy for garage work where you don't have to faff about with Windoze and fragile laptops I guess.

I've actually been thinking of getting an ELM based code reader and I notice these guys do one. Anybody else had any experience with them? I realise it won't talk to pre-DBW cars.

Kevin

33189

General Discussion Area / Re: tech2 - first time user. Help get me started?

« on: 21 January 2008, 22:09:14 »

does anybody know if these work with laptops and the cheap tech 2s?
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RS232-Com-Port-9-Pins-PCMCIA-Laptop-Card-Cardbus-Serial_W0QQitemZ260205446456QQihZ016QQcategoryZ96913QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
I have vista, have e-mailed to ask if it will work with vista.

I'd say they are more hopeful than a USB adaptor. I keep meaning to try one so I don't have to nick a laptop from work, but then I'm thinking I might just get an ELM based cable as my car ought to work with one.

Kevin

33190

General Discussion Area / Re: Look

« on: 21 January 2008, 21:53:35 »

More products there than Mrs. KW puts on her hair

What do you do when you've finished washing your car? Guess it's time to start again at the other end...

Kevin

33191

General Discussion Area / Re: So I have a Nokia N95...

« on: 21 January 2008, 10:12:24 »

The trouble is the cheapo tech2 software... its looking for a COM port, we have enough trouble trying to make them work with USB to COM.
adaptors!

Has anyone got cheapo tech2 to work on Linux?

The cheapo tech 2 implements a (non-rs232) serial connection by bit-bashing the handshaking lines in software rather than using the UART. Something like USB, Bluetooth, etc. will affect the timing of these signals (which aren't usually that time-critical in the intended application) so they simply won't work with the cheapo Tech 2 software. This is why it's also very sensitive to CPU speed.

There are a few open source code reader projects around if you're interested. The key is to move the handling of the interface off the PC, though, because PCs don't do real-time under any mainstream OS.

If the interface specs were in the public domain I'd probably have implemented it in a PIC by now...

Once the real-time stuff is off the PC it'd be easy to use bluetooth, etc.

Sorry. Looks like we're off topic again..

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: So I have a Nokia N95...

« on: 20 January 2008, 22:21:06 »

If only there was a cheapo Tech 2 that ran on it.

Kevin

Works on mine?  :-?























If I tape a paperclip to the back of it.  

I guess you could video the EML flashing and knock up an application to decode the flashing and list the faults.

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: So I have a Nokia N95...

« on: 20 January 2008, 22:07:58 »

If only there was a cheapo Tech 2 that ran on it.

Kevin

33194

General Discussion Area / Re: Busy day tomorrow.......

« on: 21 January 2008, 20:33:19 »

Squealing that disappears when the brake is pressed is probably due to the pads building up a sharp edge which rubs on the disk. If the pads turn out to have plenty of meat on them, file a chamfer on the edges and they'll quieten down.

Hang on.. didn't you change your pads at Tidworth?

Kevin

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General Discussion Area / Re: I will be away for a while

« on: 21 January 2008, 11:28:23 »

Have a good trip

Kevin