[Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging

Tue Sep 19 14:04:25 UTC 2006

I have an MSC-FD2M which is a floppy disk to Memory stick adaptor
and it works fine on Win98se, I think the device is now obsolete but can
be found in some Sony shops, on ebay or the odd tech s/h shop.

ie. Plug in memory stick (in my case 16, 64 or 128megs) into adaptor,
place adaptor into floppy drive,
Access the floppy drive from the Windows Explorer menu and it correctly
handles the memory stick capacity but as a flash drive.

It does however, require that one load a driver for the adaptor first but
seems most reliable. The install s/w says it works down to Win 95.

Another option, especially if your screen is an LCD or good CRT is to
use a digital camera on a small tripod taking a pot shot of the screen,
though you might want to select longer exposure for CRT to avoid frames.
I have regularly used this with a Sony 4Meg pixel camera and a 18"
LCD and the result is almost as good as a screen dump. With a jpeg
cut and paste/editor etc you can extract graphs, tables and even use an
OCR front end from a scanner - though I havent used that part much.

I have even taken screen dumps this way from an HP1631A/D logic analyser
of 1985 vintage with its green CRT and the result is very usable :)

Rgds

Mike

At 09:10 PM 9/19/06, you wrote:
>well taking a screenshot of the data logging process in windows XP results in all of the data coming out in words (with the simple DOS borders coming out like ASCII art). I have since discovered that highlighting all of the 'picture' in microsoft word, converting it into a monospace text (courier new), and changing the size to 8 point (i think thats it anyway) results in an ASCII picture, with all relevant data in the appropriate columns. However taking a shot of anything with real graphics (like the bar graph tuning screen on haltech units) results in meaningless mumbo jumbo (same characters as opening the datalog files in text, maybe a link here?).
>
>Taking a screenshot in Windows 98 however results in a normal screenshot (i believe this is because windows XP runs a dos emulator in windows, rather than a visual version of dos, as 98 does). This really sucks because 98 can't use memory sticks, and the computer hooked up to the dyno doesnt have a cd burner. So i have to put it on floppy, which is a long forgotten (for good reason) art...
>
>however I still can't get the data to view in anything other than the haltech program.
>
>Is it possible to tell a dos program to 'print' to a .txt file instead of the actual printer? as this would allow me to select the relevant data and put it into a word document for ease of viewing.
>
>Tomorow I will have a shot at hotwiring DOS on the 98 machine to open the datalog file in its own text viewer, maybe that will come up with something.
>
>any ideas/clues?
>
>thanks
>Ben
>
>
>>From: "Lee M. Lemoine" <llemoine at gmail.com>
>>Reply-To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>>To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>>Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging
>>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:16:46 -0400
>>
>>Hmm, i never really tried exporting stuff from my haltech.  I know that you
>>can save the documents and review them in the software.  when you say it
>>prints things out in word form, do you mean plaintext or a simulated font
>>(Postscript)  ?    If its just doing a text dump in a standard dot matrix
>>(80 columns wide)  i'm pretty sure you can find dos programs that run "TSR"
>>(Terminate Stay Resident)  which will basically capture all the data sent to
>>a specific com port and put it into a file --   but if it uses post script
>>i'm not sure how useful that'd be...    It's worth a shot, it'd be on a dos
>>freeware site.
>>
>>You'd simply just run that program, then it'll exit back to the dos prompt
>>--  then you run your haltech software.
>>
>>if you can't find anything let me know later on, i'll look for you -- gotta
>>head to work here unfortunately though.
>>
>>-- Lee
>>(haltech E6GM)
>>
>>On 9/18/06, Ben P <benof1987 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>Now i know its not DIY, but it still has something to do with cheap fuel
>>>injection.
>>>
>>>The problem is that I have a Haltech E5, and it does datalogging. And I
>>>can't view the data logs in anything but the haltech program, unless I
>>>print
>>>out all 140 pages of data, and type it up into Excel. As you can see, that
>>>is not an option.
>>>
>>>And because the haltech program is in MSDOS, taking a screenshot doesnt
>>>get
>>>me anywhere. (it comes out with the data in word form, not a picture, but
>>>it
>>>comes in unorganised streams, which makes it less useful).
>>>
>>>Can anyone think of a fix for this?
>>>
>>>thanks
>>>Ben
>>>
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>>
>>--
>>Sincerely,
>>Lee M. Lemoine
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Mike
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