Scanmaster with new PL chip

[incharge]

Ok I installed the new chip for the Scanmaster that the Power Logger came with and now I can read my PLX wideband and knock thru the Scanmaster ,but I cant read knock when viewing reg. o2,s Is this right??

[Eric Stage I]

Yes that's correct.

[Pronto]

Is it nessasary to run the new chip in the Scanmaster with the Power Logger? I wouldn't be running a wb all the time, just for tuning. I'd hate to have no knock reading on the Scanmaster.

[Eric Stage I]

If you want to connect the scanmaster to the powerlogger, then you need the new chip in the scanmaster. However, you don't have to display the WB on the scanmaster if you don't want to. If you uncheck that option in the powerlogger software, it will revert to displaying O2's and knock like before.

[incharge]

Thanks, Eric

[Pronto]

Originally Posted by Eric Stage I

If you want to connect the scanmaster to the powerlogger, then you need the new chip in the scanmaster. However, you don't have to display the WB on the scanmaster if you don't want to. If you uncheck that option in the powerlogger software, it will revert to displaying O2's and knock like before.

So when you want to drive without the WB and Powerlogger hooked up you can still monitor knock with the Scanmaster by changing the setting in the Powerlogger software? Very good.

[TurboDave]

Hmmm, my scanmaster reads knock retard right along side the WBO2 display.
Oh, never mind, I saw that you're talking about NB and knock. Hmm, guess I'll have to look at that, I thought it did, but since I put the wb in, it's all I look at, since it's my WBO2 gauge.

[TurboBuRick]

Like Eric said, just uncheck the box for the wideband and it will go back to narrow band mv's and knock retard.

[Eric Stage I]

Originally Posted by Pronto

So when you want to drive without the WB and Powerlogger hooked up you can still monitor knock with the Scanmaster by changing the setting in the Powerlogger software? Very good.

That changes things a little if you remove the powerlogger. Once you change the chip inside the scanmaster, it will only work with the powerlogger. You can't connect it to the ALDL plug like before (unless you change the scanmaster chip back).

[TurboDave]

Originally Posted by Eric Stage I

That changes things a little if you remove the powerlogger. Once you change the chip inside the scanmaster, it will only work with the powerlogger. You can't connect it to the ALDL plug like before (unless you change the scanmaster chip back).

If you remove it yes. But leaving it in place, even though it may not be being used, you'll still have the scanmaster functionality.
But why would one want to remove it?