What the best program to view your logs? I have used Excel in the past, Kinda hard to really see. Any imput on Data Log Lab?

 

I haven't used DLL myself, but I've heard it's a great program.

I use a combination of Excel, EvoScan, and Photoshop (yeah, I'm weird).

 

DLL is great, you can download a 30 day trial and decide if you want to buy it for about $40.

 

I just use evoscan for the graphical representation.

Ever since evo4mad, or whomever codes it, added the graphing for reviewing logs i haven't had a need to use DLL. I suppose DLL's dyno software is better but that doesn't interest me atm, I mainly need to graphically see the rpm, timing, knock, and load calc overlayed on a single graph which evoscan does wonderfully.

 

when u go to install it, if u make the date jan 7th 2010... thats when the 30 days will start =-p

 

I have setup some pretty cool Excel sheets that graph out all my maps: Ignition Maps, Fuel Maps, Latency Scalings, MAF Scalings, and a sheet that you can put all your data in and it graphs out over time your RPM, TPS, Accel Enrichment (Because I am screwing around with these), Timing, Speed, IPW, Load, Knock Sum and Voltage..

The reason I do this is because it makes interpreting the data much easier because you see it in graphical form over time. So, you can really see what you were doing at the time, and what lead up to the knock events logged.

 

How hard was that?

 

Not very hard...

If I had your e-mail I can send both sheets to you.

How well do you know Excel? If you know it decently, you shoudl be able to finger out what is going on..

 

I agree with RoadSpike about the graphical representation in EvoScan. It's really awesome, especially since it's such a new feature to EvoScan.

tkklemann also has a great method. Excel is an extremely powerful application. Most people use it as a spreadsheet to view and sort data, but it is very useful for formatting and analyzing data - and not just numbers.

I personally am using EvoScan's graphing functionality for the visual because it's simple - it's right there. For analysis of the data, I use Excel with a macro I created to format and color-code the data for easy analysis.

 

Looks like i need to learn Excel more and buy evoscan!

 

Any other suggestions on programs to use?

I know excel pretty well, but I find it to copmlicated and timeconsuming to import the data, especially when I got lots of logs and quickly want to find the right one.

EvoScan is probably OK to use to show the logs graphical, but I would like to see the numbers/tables as well, and notepad would be OK, but it doesn't space the columns so it just looks like a mess...

Well, I will try DLL and if it's quick and easy I'll try buy it...

 

Cool trick, a little to late for me as I already bought the software.

I do like to support the people who make software for tuning and I am not upset that I spent money on this software as it is very very helpful.

 

Any trick or other simple program I could use to see the data in columns?

Tried to use DLL, but it seems to me that Evoscan does the same job (and all the logged data isn't shown by DLL, for example the zeitronix boost/egr, I don't know how to set it up right).