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Old 03-18-2018, 02:25 PM
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Noticed this today... the engine rpm logged waves up and down. At one shift it never even logged the throttle being released on the TPS. The injector duty cycles, NB MV’d and injector data stays constant during the waving RPM. Anyone else experience this?



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This sounds like it could be a grounding issue. Is your battery in the trunk or in the engine bay. If it's in the trunk, there should be a ground from the negative terminal of the battery to the engine block directly. Grounding issues extend themselves to scanner data as the sensors go silly.
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Originally Posted by big hammer
Noticed this today... the engine rpm logged waves up and down. At one shift it never even logged the throttle being released on the TPS. The injector duty cycles, NB MV’d and injector data stays constant during the waving RPM. Anyone else experience this?



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Mine does that same **** when one of my USB ports was going out
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Originally Posted by foxsl
This sounds like it could be a grounding issue. Is your battery in the trunk or in the engine bay. If it's in the trunk, there should be a ground from the negative terminal of the battery to the engine block directly. Grounding issues extend themselves to scanner data as the sensors go silly.
No all stock grounds. But it’s a C word to get logging with the WB hooked up. Keeps dropping off. The WB is grounded to the battery
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Mine does that same **** when one of my USB ports was going out
I tried all of my USB ports it’s a fussy ****
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maybe try a new USB a to b cable? i wanted a longer one and the cheap *** replacement i got would drop channels

areyou logging w/bthru the mpvi inputs? that little adapter thing the screw can back out so i loctite em after putting the wire in
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I'm assuming you have hpt pro with the green panel of possible wire inputs. So just making sure your analog output from your wideband harness is going to mpvi slot 1 and your analog ground from your wideband harness going to mpvi slot 5, as far as clearing up wideband related things go. If that's what you have and still see issues, run an additional ground wire from your negative battery terminal to your mpvi ground slot #5.
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i usually splice into the obd ground. its a direct pcm ground.
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Originally Posted by truckdoug
i usually splice into the obd ground. its a direct pcm ground.
That's a great idea as ideally the obd port, wideband harness and hp tuner mpvi ground slot 5 should all have the exact same ground location to avoid voltage offset issues and other weirdness.




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