Some ALDL questions

[Mark Glicksman]

FJB203 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 97-04-09 03:25:39 EDT, you write:
> 
> > Thanks for the diagram.  I was just sent another diagram also.  Yours
> >  has  1uf capacitors on the diagram.  The other diagram I have came from
> >  Vance.  Hopefully I will have this built in the next couple of weeks and
> >  some software to get the raw data a few weeks after that.  BTW - Do you
> >  know of any other web sights that have more information.  Also do you
> >  have any software that you have developed or used that I could try.
> 
> Here are four URL's Mike, right from my "Favorites" in my MSIE browser.  One
> of them, not sure which one, is almost an exact duplicate of the ALDL info
> codes I posted on my website, as I leached it from there <G>.  Hope they help
> you out.
> 
>      http://iceonline.com/home/markp/chevrole/chevrole.htm
>      http://ni.umd.edu/gnttype/www/malf.html
>      http://science.smsu.edu/~lin/ecm-codes.html
>      http://www.itech.cup.edu/~wblick/plug.html#over
> 
> My experience with ALDL has been more from a learning point of view...
> haven't actually gotten any code.  I made the interface as depicted on my
> website, and tested it in an isolated fashion, and it seems okay.  Attached
> it to my PC, but haven't gotten any codes from the GM 3.8L engine in the
> garage, since I don't have a terminal software package that goes down to 160
> baud.  What I planned on doing towards the end of the summer once I have a
> basic frame under construction, was to try and write a simple terminal
> program in C to read the serial port.  If this doesn't work, I have a neat
> U-ART sitting in my basement (finding it is going to be a pleasure!) that can
> adapt to almost any baud depending on the clock I drive it with.  Something
> like 160 baud should be incredibly easy to emulate.
> 
> Fred

Hi Fred,

		Thanks for the Web Site info, they should be very helpfull, If I can
supply any additional information to you I'll try my best.

			VTY
			Mark Glicksman
			mglicksm at suffolk.lib.ny.us