For a '92 TPI setup, using DataMaster 8D, which field should I use as the BLM cell?
There is the "Long Term C-Counts" and the "Long Term Adj" field, the C-counts field never goes below 108 and does not change often so I think it may be the actual BLM, the Adj field seems to be just slightly higher than the Short Term C-Counts field which would be the INT, and both change very rapidly.
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Help text says "LTerm Trim" which there is no field labeled this and it says its expressed as a % from 128, which it is not, its the actual number, so the help text is not correct.
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Thanks

 

Long Term counts is the BLM.

 

I found the same to be true & was VERY annoyed with the Non-Answer that I got from TTS regarding the same question. Other than that I am truely happy with the software & think that it beats Diacom up one side & down the other....... but you know waht they say about opinions............

but as Synapsis said, Long Term Counts.

BW

 

The same can be said about almost all software doc in that there's always something not documented right.
But I am very happy with the software, just glad we have these bulletin boards to get the real answers the sw companies/writers can't provide

 

As a software developer I'd like to say:

We hate writing help files. It's usually the last thing we do and unless there's a team of people doing it, it almost never gets really completed.

 

hehe...I hear ya, I've been branded chief documentor for almost all of our software consulting projects where we custom develope software for some of our clients because no one else "Can" do it in a format that most people can read, they usually get too technical or their graphs look like a 1st grader did them. Then you get it documented and then all the changes start coming in and the documentation can't keep up with the changes. Its an endless battle.

 

In a side note it become very easy to tune the BLM's if express them as a percentage off of 128. That way if you use trax's meathod of adjusting the VE tables, you don't have to convert the BLM's first. It's hard for me too look at strait BLM's anymore, I feel so much more comfortable seeing the percentages.

 

This can be easily fixed go up to the bar at the top with file , view, etc. and under one of those topics there should be an option for settings or display units or something. I don't have the program in front of me. Once you open it a new window will pop up that lets you change most of the dispay units for different things. (ie *C vs. *F for engine temp or Intake air temp) anyway all the way at the bottom there is the L-term and S-term counts check the box that says percentages for both, that way they will both be displayed as percentages off of 128.

hth,

Jim

 

Thanks Jim, didn't realize I could do that, its been a long time since I configured the DM software for the setup.
I will change it as I just finished "round #2" for going thru the VE tables and doing the conversion, I've almost got all the conversions to % memorized based on the BLM value now

 

you can do this to any previous run. It doesn't have to record it in this way to view it as a percentage Once you click that box you can load any previous run and see the %'s.

 

... and I'm guessing that for TTS Datamaster, that "STerm-C Counts" (short term counts?) is the INT. of course, this isn't mentioned anywhere in the DM Help.

I wasn't sure if I saw that explicitly stated anywhere, although by process of elimination one could conclude that ...

at least, that's the assumption I've been using while messing with my VE tables. it sure would be awful to be wrong at this time. although it might explain why I'm still not tuned in.