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Load cap

Posted: April 21st, 2010, 11:44 am
by JumpingJackson
Im very interested in Versatune as you guys actually own Mazda's. :) Are you guys able to rescale the load calculation so that people like me with big turbos dont run into the load cap?

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 21st, 2010, 11:59 am
by Ugnius @ VersaTune
We are currently investigating load cap reasons in the ECU code. We hope to find a way to get rid of it in a nice way that will not cause any troubles with AFRs.
Steve is able to reproduce load capping even with stock turbo and ported head.

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 21st, 2010, 2:45 pm
by Steve @ VersaTune
There are a number of load caps in the code. I am trying to find them all. I need to upgrade to a bigger turbo to test very large loads though. Since we have the ability to make changes to the code as well as the tables, I want to do this the right way. That takes R&D time. My wife will confirm that I have been hard at work on this very issue till 1:30 AM every night this week ....

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 2:37 am
by JumpingJackson
This makes me very happy. haha

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 6:01 am
by MPSdriver
Waiting on the wife to confirm this :lol: If you guys can alter not only the tables but also the code in the ECU you're going to make a lott of people happy campers !

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 8:01 am
by Steve @ VersaTune
I found some more 2.5's last night. They really did not want load to exceed 2.5. Lol

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 8:27 am
by Ugnius @ VersaTune
ISO standards specify that expected load range on turbocharged engines is from 0 to 400% :)
BTW absolute load specifies how much air is in the engine compared to its displacement. Naturally aspirated engines can't reach more than 90-95% load.

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 10:39 am
by JumpingJackson
How does the speed 3 / speed 6 ECU's differ. If you find one table / piece of logic is it in the same place for both?

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 22nd, 2010, 11:23 am
by Steve @ VersaTune
I have not dug into the MS3 ECU that deeply yet. I'm sure they are very similar. Once MS6 is released, I will work on MS3.

Re: Load cap

Posted: April 24th, 2010, 4:25 pm
by 06Speed6
Is there a way to increase the resulution of the table such that you can extend the data set covered by the table and maintain a compairable spread between the data points?

Im sure if it was possible it would have already been done, but I thought I would ask anyway.