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Hey just wondering if anyone has permanently installed this? I don't know if it's possible beings if you leave OBD II plugged in it will drain the battery. Just curious as some of your setups.

 

Mine has been "permanently" installed for ~8 months.

 

I have it perm installed for 3 yrs, never a drained battery. I saw some people speculate, it was nothing more than speculation.

 

Mine is also always installed. No problem with battery, besides the ones I already have with the insurance company tracker apparatus.

 

Nice, did any of you move the obd II dongle. It's very close to my left foot/leg. Also curious of what some of your setups look like.

 

Mine is over in the glove box... relocated with the right angle extender from tactrix.

https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/8769855-post8.html

 

Same here but I'm still paranoid about battery drain. Call it past experience but I do anything I can to avoid vampire battery drain especially since I can go a good number of days without driving my car (second car + mass transit).

To that end I am considering asking these guys if they can make a cable with a power switch. They already offer the plug (http://www.fes-auto.com/products_det...p?productid=26) and they offer a cable with that plug for a specialty application (http://www.fes-auto.com/products_det...p?productid=28) so it should be a no braininer to make a basic extension cord with a power button.

An alternative is to hack up my extension cable to add an ACC controled relay to the power wire (Pin 16 I believe).

 

This looks interesting.

 

So I am having a problem getting evoscan gps navigator to work with my 2008 evo x. My rom has mode23 enabled and I am able to get evoscan on my laptop to work. This is what I am getting on my evoscan gps screen:


Any help would be much appreciated.

 

try this:

-unplug openport from your evoscan gps
-flip switch on bottom side of evoscan gps to turn it off
-turn it back on
-open evoscan
-plug in openport (should also already be plugged into car though I'm not 100% that matters as I didn't test it)

is it working now?

 

You'll have to do the soft reset too.

 

Alright did that and now it reconzies the open port cable. Now when I go to the gages none of them work. Says everything is okay, is there something I have to do to set up the gages?

Also is there a way to shut the gps down?

 

ok now at this point you should go back in this thread and start reading. The info is there. You need to be sure you have the correct xml definitions, then that you have selected the correct ECU (i.e. you are using those definitions) and then you need to make sure the gauges are polling the correct item ID (I found rpm is the usual cuplrit since it is ofcten defined as 2-byte rpm in the data-xml).

 

Yeah, I found the gtr thread and used the two xml files that catalystgod attached. Going to try it out tomorrow. Thanks for the help.