Hi everyone.

We're after some folks with UTECs fitted to EVOs to act as beta testers on our conversion of Data Log Lab to work with the EVO UTEC.

Data Log Lab currently works with WRX UTEC, PossumLink, LinkPlus, Tec-2, and Tec-3 data logs. It is not a virtual dashboard or a data log play back tool. Instead it enables rapid and meaningful analysis of the information that is hidden within the data logs through time-based and log-wide graphs of knock hot-spots, spool up, boost target maintenance, A/F under load, etc, etc. It offers far more functionality than manufacturers’ original software and access to it in a far easier way. Its combination of power and ease of use has already won it many satisfied customers.

One of its most popular features is the generation of Power Graphs directly from the data log, which prove excellent for monitoring performance gains from tuning or modifications, and can even provide early warning of problems.

As a beta tester you'll need to be technically literate in both the car and your PC, have the time to provide data logs and explain their content. The reward is a free life-long Data Log Lab license!

If you're interested in being a beta tester either PM or email to support@dataloglab.com.

Thanks in advance,

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com



P.S. Thanks to Justin (JustDSM) for getting the ball rolling with an earlier post

 

Tell ya what.. I'll beta test the app, if you have a programming API, I can write a linker to my app to allow you to get data in realtime into your app.. There's no point in reinventing the wheel, you don't intend to gather realtime data, and I don't really want to take the data I gather, and analyze it in my program.. It could be mutually beneficial..

 

Hi MalibuJack.

Thanks for the offer of being a beta tester - I'll gladly take you up on it. Though are you sure you've got time with all the virtual dash development? ;-)

Data Log Lab loads a completed data log, so if your virtual dashboard app already saves one, all you have to do is append the path and file name of it to a call to the Data Log Lab executable. Data Log Lab will then load it up and draw a graph straight away!

If you've got examples of EVO data logs in fixed length and CSV format for all six types produced from the UTEC that you could email through to me, that'd be great!

Thanks,

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com

 

Sure, I can get those out to you tomorrow afternoon..

 

would you also be interested in a data log (Shift-1) CSV with GPS Coordinates too?

 

What I'll do is a 'log and launch' button to kick off your analyser program after its done with a capture.. Is the eval version similar enough (in path and registry settings) that I can use that to key against to detect its presence? Also, is the program MDI so if I try to kick off several logs, they'll all open from the same master window? (like Excel does?)

 

The GPS co-ordinates would throw Data Log Lab if it didn't know what they were - it wouldn't be able to work out which of the six data log formats it was looking at. I can't think of anything useful that Data Log Lab could do with them in its current graphs.

The "Log and Launch" button sounds ideal. The current executable name and location will remain the same, though it's not in the registry and is only a default that the user can change on install - might be easier to let the user record in virtual dash where they've installed DLL to. DLL's not SDI, but will happily launch as multiple sessions.

Thanks,

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com

 

Ok, at least I know where to look for it (and the user can configure it). Since the GPS support isn't complete yet, Its not a huge deal, the plan is to append the GPS data in brackets [xxx,yyy,aaa] at the end of the line on a DATA1 (Comma delimited) log, since it would be a unique string (the brackets) you should be able to detect it and disregard it if not needed.
(are you relying on the DATA1 DATA2, etc header to tell the difference in the dataset? or the pattern? It will allow me to make sure I save the right info to the file so it won't choke)

However, the GPS Data (providing the GPS can aquire enough satellites to provide triangulated information) will allow you to calculate horsepower, Torque, speed, acceleration, lateral G-Force (you can plot turns against speed and distance with weight if the resolution of the GPS is high enough, don't know yet), and since most GPS also provide altitude information, Sea-level Corrections for the calculations.

Oh, and I'll collect the logs for you on my way into work this afternoon, so you should get my logs before midnight tonight.

 

See where you're going with the GPS data, though Data Log Lab already calculates torque, hp, speed, and acceleration from the RPM output - that's it's most popular feature!

Had to abandon the data type in the header when optional columns started complicating things - now looks at the column header footprints to try to work out which it's dealing with. If the GPS data were optional on the generated log there'd be no compatibility issues...

Looking forward to the data logs.

Thanks,

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com

 

Damn, thanks to the weather I wasn't able to capture the logs.. I'll try to get some regular driving captures tonight on my way home from work.. The Tuna datalogs will have to wait until the weekend or early next week.. but there are enough of the shift-1 logs posted on here with the tuna attached.

I was pondering how you could calculate horsepower from a "run" when you didn't know the speed the car was travelling, but then I realized that if you make assumptions about the sample rate, you can make time calculations against RPM and a few known variables you can get the HP/TQ values (fairly accurately)

 

Don't have to full boost maniac data logs - any examples even of very short length would be fine.

Yup - the torque can be calculated pretty easily in principle. The complicated bit is smoothing the jumpy RPM output (all ECUs are the same in my experience).

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com

 

Hey Glenn,
I have a ton of logs and would be interested in beta testing your tool. Let me know where I can send the logs and how often / what type of logs you are looking for. I have everything from just driving around to race track to drag.

 

Hi PDXEvo.

Thanks for the offer - I'll be glad to receive example data logs, but unfortunately all the beta testers are in place now.

Glenn
Data Log Lab Support
www.dataloglab.com