Non OBD solutions...

doig · 11-13-2003, 06:25 AM

Its not really been discussed many times, other that a couple of very vauge mentions. Basically, there must be a way to do this for non obd cars. I'm not after something thats going to tell me that the car is 400 km overdue for a service or anything, just very simple and very basic speed and tacho.

Solutions that are possible:

Freq to voltage converters.
Should be able to be used to work out tach pulses, and probably can be used to get speed too.

OzTechnics kit
Noone that i know of has had expirence with this and so i dont know how/if it will work. They dont have kits in stock at the moment and so i cant try this for myself.

I'm sure that there are other people out there that are interested in this sort of thing that dont have OBD equipped cars. Hopefully people will see the obd fourum and catch on!

GingerPrince · 11-13-2003, 06:47 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by doig

Its not really been discussed many times, other that a couple of very vauge mentions. Basically, there must be a way to do this for non obd cars. I'm not after something thats going to tell me that the car is 400 km overdue for a service or anything, just very simple and very basic speed and tacho.

Solutions that are possible:

Freq to voltage converters.
Should be able to be used to work out tach pulses, and probably can be used to get speed too.

OzTechnics kit
Noone that i know of has had expirence with this and so i dont know how/if it will work. They dont have kits in stock at the moment and so i cant try this for myself.

I'm sure that there are other people out there that are interested in this sort of thing that dont have OBD equipped cars. Hopefully people will see the obd fourum and catch on!

The easiest way is to get a pulse signal into your line-in, and use/write softwar e to workout the frequency, and therefore rpm/speed from that.

The best way is, if you can find it, to tap off a crank-angle-sensor signal from your car. For example in mine this is a 5 volt pulse, attenuate this down to 1 volt or so and feed into your line-in. Then have your software listen to this, and calculate engine rpm and whatever else you want.

If you can't find this signal, you can get HT lead inductors that pick up the signal from your HT leads, and use that. This is a dirtier signal though and more prone to software error.

These are the principals that software such as Home Dyno use to do power plots etc. I've done it, it worked, but I haven't integrated it into a car computer because it didn't really offer enough. I just played with a laptop a while ago.

Sy

bizahh · 11-13-2003, 02:21 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by GingerPrince

The easiest way is to get a pulse signal into your line-in, and use/write softwar e to workout the frequency, and therefore rpm/speed from that.

The best way is, if you can find it, to tap off a crank-angle-sensor signal from your car. For example in mine this is a 5 volt pulse, attenuate this down to 1 volt or so and feed into your line-in. Then have your software listen to this, and calculate engine rpm and whatever else you want.

If you can't find this signal, you can get HT lead inductors that pick up the signal from your HT leads, and use that. This is a dirtier signal though and more prone to software error.

These are the principals that software such as Home Dyno use to do power plots etc. I've done it, it worked, but I haven't integrated it into a car computer because it didn't really offer enough. I just played with a laptop a while ago.

Sy

I have no idea what you just said but I want to know more

GingerPrince · 11-13-2003, 02:30 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by bizahh

I have no idea what you just said but I want to know more

Go ye here for a primer : -

http://www.charm.net/~mchaney/homedyno/homedyno.htm

DJ Prophecy · 11-20-2003, 01:37 AM

Hi i was wondering the same thing i have a 1994 nissan altiam and id love to extract infor from my ECU How can i? again?

SjLucky · 11-20-2003, 02:19 AM

you dont have obdI on your nissan??
thats odd

hy-tek · 11-20-2003, 04:43 AM

This may help nissan's with 14 pin plugs have not used it yet put looks like the goods.

Hy-tek

1991 nissan pulsar gti

ps has any one tryed this and does any one have software for it ,I not a software person

DJ Prophecy · 11-20-2003, 03:53 PM

SJ LUCKY i have no idea ? all i know is if i would like to check error codes the come up as 3 long and 4 short blinks for code 34 etc. . . i jsut assume that since my car is under 1996 it cant be obdII , am i right?

SjLucky · 11-20-2003, 07:51 PM

I would check up with the guys over at nissanforums.com
they should know wiether its an obdI or an obdII

ShawJohn · 05-18-2005, 11:04 AM

UK Nissan's after 96 have whats known as a Consult Port instead of OBDII standard.
You need to build a Consult Interface board and source a set of cables, but don't ask where from as I don't know either. Plenty of site detailing Consult interface but non tell you where to get plugs/connectors from!

markbuts3 · 05-19-2005, 10:46 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Tuned Vitesse

UK Nissan's after 96 have whats known as a Consult Port instead of OBDII standard.
You need to build a Consult Interface board and source a set of cables, but don't ask where from as I don't know either. Plenty of site detailing Consult interface but non tell you where to get plugs/connectors from!

http://www.plmsdevelopments.com/consult_if.htm

Works with my Primera and plenty of later Primeras. But in 1999 the Primera went to OBD-II and lost the consult port....

Pete is very helpful, I organised a group buy with him ages ago when he first sarted selling them...Tom's software if cool too and he keeps developing it.