Re-Programing and battery power levels
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Re-Programing and battery power levels I see that there are a few that are programming the PCM, and are getting low power level problems and are forced to buy new PCm's when things go bad with the battery.
Can you not just hook a trickle charger to the battery while you are uploading the program as to ensure that you will have enough juice for the upload? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Wouldnt this fix all the PCM purchases that are happening?
I thought that I'd add this...it's just cool! <img border="0" alt="[Truck]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_truck.gif" />
Can you not just hook a trickle charger to the battery while you are uploading the program as to ensure that you will have enough juice for the upload? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Wouldnt this fix all the PCM purchases that are happening?
I thought that I'd add this...it's just cool! <img border="0" alt="[Truck]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_truck.gif" />
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Re: Re-Programing and battery power levels I would NOT have a charger on the system while flashing the PCM.
Chargers can ramp the current and could cause a glitch/spike that could cause link to get dropped, so to be safe just charge battery before flashing and do not have anything running that needs not be when uploading to flash.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by mcaanda:
<strong>I see that there are a few that are programming the PCM, and are getting low power level problems and are forced to buy new PCm's when things go bad with the battery.
Can you not just hook a trickle charger to the battery while you are uploading the program as to ensure that you will have enough juice for the upload? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Wouldnt this fix all the PCM purchases that are happening?
I thought that I'd add this...it's just cool! <img border="0" alt="[Truck]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_truck.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Chargers can ramp the current and could cause a glitch/spike that could cause link to get dropped, so to be safe just charge battery before flashing and do not have anything running that needs not be when uploading to flash.
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by mcaanda:
<strong>I see that there are a few that are programming the PCM, and are getting low power level problems and are forced to buy new PCm's when things go bad with the battery.
Can you not just hook a trickle charger to the battery while you are uploading the program as to ensure that you will have enough juice for the upload? <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="gr_stretch.gif" />
Wouldnt this fix all the PCM purchases that are happening?
I thought that I'd add this...it's just cool! <img border="0" alt="[Truck]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_truck.gif" /> </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">
