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Good day

we have found ourselves in the compromised situation of using racetechnology logger and dash display and a m800 ecu.i have a DL2 and dash 2 connected via the racetechnology serial adapter and I also have the CAN adapter. either way i don't have any communication from the motec to the race technlogy.

according to race tech (RT) i should set the motec to 19.2kbaud, data set 3 using the crc232 set ups (the same i believe that is used for telemtery)
but no luck in comms like this

i have also tried using a CAN adapter but also no luck there.
as the RT requires single message say 1 temperature alone to be decoded at a time, while motec send a bundle of data in 1 message.

Does anyone have any advice for me please? how can i check whether the motec is even sending serial data out. i know it is sending CAN as it connects with the HTC adapter.

Thank you kindly
Greg Bailey

I have !M logging enabled on the m800. is there a way of logging the serial output file to check that it is working?

The easiest thing to do is to connect the serial output wire to a Terminal emulator on your laptop. "Real Term" is probably best.

So the TX from the ECU needs to be wired to a D9(pin2) and then plugged into a laptop serial port while running Real term to monitor the output of the ECU?

Correct.....but to be honest it will be working, I have never seen the RS232 data stream stop. Our Dash Loggers have an RS232 (and CAN for that matter) diagnostic to tell us if anything is wrong. The diagnostics are available for each communications device connected to our Dash Loggers.