Sold: DashDAQ Series II w/licenses

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SOLD

Gone like my last paycheck gone gone away
Gone like the car I wrecked gone gone away
Gone like a fifth of gin gone gone away
Gone like the shape I'm in gone gone away
My baby's gone away

SOLD :D



DashDAQ Series II (was $699 new and newer model is on sale for $550 now)
Comes with the following licences:
Chrysler Specific license ($95)
GM Specific license ($95)
Ford/Mazda license ($95)

Price: $400

Special price for "long term" SRT/C members ONLY (sign-on date at least 6 months ago and more than 100 posts): $350

PM me.
(or I think [email protected] should work to satisify forum rules).

I'm selling this unit to upgrade to the DashDAQ XL. Differences are
DashDAQ XL has a slightly larger screen (same resolution?), all black case, more internal memory, and indents on the back at the cable connections to make them easier to insert while reaching behind it blind.

Primary motivation? All black case, lol.
Secondary motivation? more internal memory although I don't have a need for it now. If you have a bunch of display themes, and voice (recorded) warnings, AND the media player then it won't fit. I don't have any use for the media player so I don't have a problem. I could probably load it if I didn't have 5 or 6 full gauge themes loaded (which I also never use).
Tertiary (that work for third?) motivation? the indents on the back although I'm pretty good at easily hitting the connector.

www.dashdaq.com
to see everything it does if you're not familiar with it. Display options are literally limitless (they have a theme/screen/gauge editor and you can roll your own right down to the bitmaps, fonts, splash screens, backgrounds, etc.
http://www.dashdaq.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=34
for the screen editor and various custom layouts users have done.

Questions? ask and I'll answer them as they come up. You can download the manual from their site. DashDAQ series II and DashDAQ XL run the same image so the functionality is identical.

I'll be selling this with whatevery comes with the new one in the box. Should be the OBD2 cable, windshield suction cup mount, and a USB cable (I have a different mount and I'm not tearing apart the front of my car to extract the old cable -- will use it with the new unit). If you have analog inputs you want to run into it you'll have to buy the analog accessory cable from DrewTech ($30).

For the OBD part, the basic unit comes with all the generic OBD2 signals and then just a few of each of the specific ones. Each one of the specific licenses costs $95 additional. For example the Chrysler specific license gets you about 250 signals on my car (you don't use the OBD2 generic at all with the Chrysler specific). You can save the detected signals. I'll see if I can post the list at bottom of this. Keep in mind that a detected signal means that the DD polled for it and the PCM (or another module) responded. Some aren't going to work for some cars. For example, I'm not going to get anything having to do with MDS on my car. Most everything you might be interested in is there (including transmission fluid temperature in the latest software version). Signal/pid names should be the same ones Chrysler uses.

You can play back logs on the device or save in CVS or LogWorks3 for the PC. Logging is a matter of hitting the start log button on the screen and whatevery gauges/signals you have on the screen get logged. You can also configure (up to 10?) additional signals that get logged no matter what screen you're looking at. So hit the button and all the "global" signals that you configured and whats on the screen gets logged.

It's a touch screen by the way. to config a gauge you simply tap on it.
It will take an SD card (actually SDHC so you can log for days). Start/stop log creates a log file. Start/stop again creates another, etc.

Check out the ebay listings. Looks like there's one for $535. and I assume that would be without the license(s) so OBD2 generic only. Looks like there's one with a GM license for $7xx. I suppose most people would only need one of the licenses (probably Chrysler?) but if you have one of the other cars too... maybe my price is too high. let me know.

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What...? I'm still checking my PMs...

I'm not very good at this selling stuff (I only buy things). Is the price ridiculous?
 
I'm stupid what all does this do is it like the dashhawk I do like the screen
 
It does pretty much everything you can think of...

That screen in the pic is just one of 6 or 7 screens in that skin. That skin/theme was done by some user using the graphics editor/tool. I liked it better than the supplied ones so that's what I use. Next screen is layed out completely different with different style/type gauges and I have different signals configured on it. What you see in the pic is just my "home" screen (haha, it's configurable if you want a particular screen or just the last one viewed at power up). Tap the ">>" button at the bottom and you get the next screen in that skin/theme with different gauges on it.

It is like the DashHawk in that it is an OBDII scanner. Unlike the DashHawk the Chrysler specific license will get you all the Chrysler specific/proprietary PIDs/parameters. The OBDII spec defines a number of generic parameters that all cars will report/support. Then manufacturers define their own additional set of parameters. Transmission Fluid Temp for example. There are hundreds.

Also different than the DashHawk is the model it has.

There are device drivers - that would be like OBDII Generic, Chrysler Specific, Innovate, MPG calculator, Statistics calculator, Rescale Signal, etc. etc. Each driver produces a one or more signals.

Then there are gauge types. Analog, bar, graph, digital, text, etc. etc. Each gauge can be configured with Max/min to scale the units displayed, high warning, low warning, colors for all the above, audible warnings for high/low, Etc. In the pics my analog IAT gauge has gone over the high warning I configured for it and that "pie" section of the gauge face has turned red (configured color). If my ECT was below 170 that portion of the ECT gauge would be blue. The digital gauges I have on there change colors if the value goes below the low or above the high thresholds I configured. In addition for the AFR gauge if it goes over 17 the ladies voice will say "High Warning" through the builtin speaker (it has a mini plug for external speaker or wiring into the stereo). The ST knock retard says "Engine knock detected" if it goes over 2*. I could have recorded my own voice warnings or any audio but I just used the supplied ones. It's a touch screen. Touch a gauge and you're in the configuration for that gauge.

Pick a gauge, assign a signal to it and configure it like you want.
The screen you're looking at is one of many screens all with different gauge layouts and types and numbers of. A set of screens makes up a skin/theme. You can have any number of skins/themes on the SD card and just load a different one if you like. You can use the graphics editor (separate program -- free off the website) to make your own gauges/skins/themes/wall paper/spash screen/ etc.

Then there's the Statistics and Rescale calculators. You install them like a device driver and then you can run a signal through them. For example the Analog input driver is basically a rescale driver. You run the analog signal (0 to 5) through that with a multiplier of 2x and an offset of 10 and you've rescaled the 0 to 5 signal to a 10 to 20 signal. The Statistics calculator can be used to smooth a signal and/or get a moving average or min or max. You can specify precision to round to the digits you want to see. For example the Chrysler signal for modeled cat temp is reported in 100ths of a degree (why???). Since you're not interested in 100ths when you're looking at values around 1200 - 1400 you can use either of the calulators to set the precision to 0 (nothing to the right of the decimal point) and your digital display will show what you wanted to see. Haha, using 2 Rescale Calculators (RPM -> Rescale -> Rescale -> display gauge) I was able to display my RPM in 500 increments... 0, 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, ...

Look here to see some of the user contributed skins/layouts/gauges
http://www.dashdaq.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=34

Then... there is all the whacky stuff like the Media Player. You can actually load your mp3s on the SD card and play them through the DD. It will play videos of certain formats (WMA?). Never tried it, no use for it.

It has a serial/analog accessory cable input (I'm not selling the cable -- it's $30 from their site but it's a standard type cable). So you can run 2 analog signals into it. Like an AFR and an EGT for example. You'd use the 0v-5v output from your AFR/EGT controller to run into the DD and display it on the DD. That's where my AFR display is coming from in the pics. You can also run serial input into that. Like Innovate's MTS. You would have to get the Innovate driver for that ($50?) from DrewTech. So if you had a bunch of Innovate gauges daisy-chained together using Innovates serial connection (MTS) you could run that into the DashDaq. Then the Innovate driver would install like the other device drivers and it would have all the signals for the daisy-changed gauges/sensors. Pick a gauge, assign a signal from the Innovate driver and you have it on your display. You don't need to buy anything except the cable if you're going to use the analog output from your Innovate controller. They got drivers for serial inputs from Innovate, Zeitronics, and phidgets.

Logging: Way better than DashHawk except the graphs aren't as fancy. You can log in 3 formats. CVS for import into Excel, LogWorks3 (Innovates logging grapher and free from Innovate), or internal for replay on the DashDaq.

For the logging you just tap on the <start log> on a screen and it starts a log file with all the signals you're looking at on that screen. So whatever screen of gauges you're looking at will get logged until you tap on <stop log>. Do it again and it opens a new log file. If you have a 16 GB or 32 GB SDHC card you can do a LOT of logging/logs. There is also a place where you can configure something like 10 signals that will additionally get logged even if you aren't looking at them or monitoring them. Those 10 or so signals are called "global". You can be watching the screen with the 24 digital gauge boxes, hit <start log> and you'd be logging the 24 signals you're looking at plus whatever global signals you configured.

Screen brightness is configurable or set it to automatic and it uses the light sensor. Various volume settings. Variable shutoff delay.

Has performance tests for 0-60mph, 1/4 mile and user defined tests. It only uses a "tree" to start though. So once you fire the start button you have to go when the tree hits the green. I kind of liked the DashHawk one where it would start whenever you decided to mash the gas ... just have to subtract out the R/T.

Shows codes, clears codes,

Thats some of what the scanner/monitor/gauge does... You can add on a GPS. The transceiver plugs into one of the 3 mini-USB ports (1 is just for software updates). Then you run the Navigation app instead of the scanner/monitor. I don't have any use for that either so I didn't get the add-on ($120?)

There's more. Ask me questions.

Oh yea, I forgot... When you have screens and screens of gauges it's only monitoring/polling for the signals you're actually looking at (active screen). So lets say you have all your temp gauges on one screen and a bunch of other signals on the next screen, it's not polling for the other signals while you're watching your temps. So hit the >> button to get to the next screen and then those gauges go "active". Otherwise you're going to be flooding the bus or your sample rate would be really slow.
 
So in other words if I buy this I can just call you for tech support
 
So in other words if I buy this I can just call you for tech support

err, umm, sigh... yes :erm:. Since I know you. You have to at least browse through the manual. I can't work the skin editor so you'd be on your own there and I don't know everything but we could probably work through anything together. (you got VZW? it's free mobile-to-mobile). Tell you what... just because it's you. You buy it (I didn't think about shipping, can't be more than a few bucks) and if you don't like it right away (like long enough to try everything and get everything hooked up) you can send it back.
 
I would buy it if I didn't already have one. I still haven't explored most of what it can do but it's a great tool for sure. For the price, it's a steal. I've even seen a dashdaq hooked to the dyno recording all the info from it. I don't know how to do that stuff but it can be done.

Les
 
You'd need an EGT sensor and controller. Just like a wideband AFR. You would take the 0v-5v analog output from your EGT and run it into the DD with the seria/analog accessory cable (you'd have to buy the cable -- $30). Then it would be a signal just like the OBD signals which you can display/log with the rest.

If you added a Innovate, Zeitronix, or Phidgets EGT sensor to your other Innovate, Zeitronix, or Phidgets sensors/gauges and had them daisy chained you could run the serial signal into the DD through the serial/analog accessory cable and they'd all be available with the rest of the signals.

DCX has a (Chrysler extended) OBD pid for Cat temp that you can display but since we don't have any physical sensors it's a modeled value -- DCX factors in a whole bunch of other measured values and calculate what they expect the cat temp to be.
 
I installed an AEM UEGO wideband on his jeep there were datalogging wires on it.
 
I installed an AEM UEGO wideband on his jeep there were datalogging wires on it.

From AEM's site: User-programmable 0-5v analog output included for use with data loggers and virtually any engine management system

You'd run this into the serial/analog port on the DD and it would be an input signal like the others. The anlog input driver has configurable scaling. So if AEM's 0-5v output corresponds to 10 - 20 AFR you would configure
Analog Input (1) multiplier = 2,
Analog Input (1) offset = 10.

Then pick a gauge (any gauge on whatever screen you want) and assign that signal to it.
Gauge config:
display label = AFR
Min = 10
Max = 20 (it auto scales the ticks on analog gauges or the increment for bar gauges)
Main color beige
Low Warning = 11.5,
Low Warning color = blue (pick from color map)
Low Warning audio = "Pig Rich!" (recorded your own), repeat 1 sec
High Warning = 16.5
High Warning color = red
High Warning audio = "Detonation Imminent!! Lift NOW!", repeat constant

there's more... (there's also defaults for everything).
 
In english please, you lost me there...so will it work to measure EGT this way or not? How difficult would that be?
Looking at the link you provided that thing is cool!

It will DISPLAY the output from your EGT probe (and controller).
It does not measure EGT itself.

For EGT (and AFR) gauges you need 3 components.
1) the physical sensor that goes into the exhaust pipe/manifold.
2) a controller to work/measure the physical sensor.
3) A display gauge.

An example (AFR) of just the sensor and controller would be the Innovate LC-1. It's a sensor and a cable. The cable has the sensor controller built into it. Out of the cable they provide you with an output. In this case a wire that generates 0 volts to 5 volts in porportion to the sensor readings. Then they tell you that 0v output = 10:1 AFR and 5v output = 20:1 AFR. Knowing that you can set your gauge to display from 10:1 AFR to 20:1 AFR.

For external gauges/sensors what the DD does for you is give you an integrated display and integrated logging.

Right now you probably have an AFR gauge in the car and a Predator. If you do logging you're going to have a Predator log with RPM, timing, etc. and (if the AEM does logging) a AEM log with AFR. Not easy to match them up. ...I see a bump in my AFR. I wonder what RPM that happens at?...
With the DD you can be watching all those gauges on 1 display, graphing all those gauges on 1 display, and logging all those gauges in a single log (to display/re-run/graph on a PC).
 
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Ok. In an unprecedented sales move I've canceled the price drop and raised it back up to the original $400 (and I'm advertising it on the other site :P)
 
Alright... it's posted over there. If you were on the fence, now's the time. I figure it's going to be gone in about 15 minutes over there.

("tech support" for anyone I know here is still included)
 
Price drop back down to $350 for "long" term SRT/C members only!

It didn't sell in 15 minutes over there... got about 50 views in 3 minutes :D. Price dropped on this site only for "long" term members.If you have a signed up 6 months or more ago and have more than 100 posts.
 
bump...

I can't believe it... nobody even has this on their wish list? nobody ever thought about getting one? EVERYBODY should have one of these. what's wrong with you people?
 
I think it's going to sell... last chance here.
 
dave, do you have the ability to monitor mileage on multiple odometers? say, like 4 or 5 odometers?
 
dave, do you have the ability to monitor mileage on multiple odometers? say, like 4 or 5 odometers?

I have no idea... ??
Where are the feeds for the odometers coming from?

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Something like trip odometers all based on the feed from the single vehicle odometer?
I think the answer is going to be no...
 
I have no idea... ??
Where are the feeds for the odometers coming from?

I'm not sure I understand what you're asking. Something like trip odometers all based on the feed from the single vehicle odometer?
I think the answer is going to be no...

yeah, basically, or even from a gps. would like to be able to moniter between oil changes, break pad changes, transmission mileage and engine mileage, since now they're all going to be different
 

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