SDL compound can messages

[lumley32]

so i have a Life Racing F88 transmitting to an SDL over CAN, when i set it up i couldn't get the SDL to pick up compound messages from the ecu. at the time i just made 6 new templates just using 4 channels in each and this got me going, now i need more channels from the ECU. its transmitting them but i can't get the SDL to read more than 4 per can template.

i have tryed everything i can think off, if i make a compound receive template in ADL manager and import it the first 4 channels work as expected but the rest just come out as 0 on the dash.

is the SDL able to work with more than 4 channels per template or am i missing something?

any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks, Rich

[Franz]

Rich,

SDL and ADL do not have the ability to do this... an ADL2 can do this on channel 8 or higher... all of the latest release display/loggers can do this.

for now, you will have to pick the pertinent data sent from the LR ecu that you need displayed and/or logged.

-franz

[lumley32]

if that is the case, why is it that on lots of the other can templates that come with the SDL there are more than 4 channels?

i know that you cant make your own templates in the SDL software, but its easy to make them in ADL2 and copy them across.

[AlanB]

Hello Rich

Have you read the 'ADL Advanced Communications' tech note (attached)? Page 4 explains how to set the communications up to receive compound messages.

Obviously the comms need to be configured in a different manager software, but it should work OK once you have it set up correctly, copied the comms file across and imported it into the SDL file.

[lumley32]

thanks alan, that looks like the info i need!

[Franz]

the messages from the f88 are not sent in a compound format just a range of base addresses.