SERT Map loading
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RE: SERT Map loading
I have been told both ways so I am paranoid now because I first lost my ecm due to an adapter using a laptop,have been using a pc without problem till this past weekend when I lost it again,I've been told the trickle charger being connected was my latest reason,but in the past have been told bike battery must be on tender while loading in order to not lose power,just don't want any more problems.
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RE: SERT Map loading
I think someone (the who that told you you need a trickle charger hooked up) is guessing. I've pushed maps to my bike without any problems. Unless you have a bum battery you should not need to have it hooked up to a charger.
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RE: SERT Map loading
You need a good battery charged to normal loads on both the bike and laptop.
In I bet 75 times of doing this with my bike loading or recording I only once had a problem. Hung up on 25%. I think I hurried too much flicking the computer, its an old one.
The book says if this happens and not over 30% loaded nothing changes. If more, just do over.
You cannot load the ECM with anything except a, "saved", program. so it's not really lost.
I also save to a floppy or two incase anything happenes to my old laptop. Would be lost then and in a world or hurt. Then I put that on myWife's computer also.
But I'm paronoid. Anybody not paronoid is crasy as a hoot.
In I bet 75 times of doing this with my bike loading or recording I only once had a problem. Hung up on 25%. I think I hurried too much flicking the computer, its an old one.
The book says if this happens and not over 30% loaded nothing changes. If more, just do over.
You cannot load the ECM with anything except a, "saved", program. so it's not really lost.
I also save to a floppy or two incase anything happenes to my old laptop. Would be lost then and in a world or hurt. Then I put that on myWife's computer also.
But I'm paronoid. Anybody not paronoid is crasy as a hoot.
Cruiser
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RE: SERT Map loading
OK, my paranoid $.02
I unplug the headlight fuse. That way I don't have both H4's on my RG pulling on the battery while I upload a map. The fuse box is right there anyway, easy enough to lift the headlamp fuse and plug it back in later.
I unplug the headlight fuse. That way I don't have both H4's on my RG pulling on the battery while I upload a map. The fuse box is right there anyway, easy enough to lift the headlamp fuse and plug it back in later.
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RE: SERT Map loading
every tuner I have ever used in the doc's has said keep your laptop plugged into 120v power while uploading to the ecm
Must be something to it if all different tuners say the same thing
Must be something to it if all different tuners say the same thing
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Road Warrior
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Being careful. Time wasted cost money.
I like the fuse thing, has awlays bothered me, that.
I like the fuse thing, has awlays bothered me, that.
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RE: SERT Map loading
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every tuner I have ever used in the doc's has said keep your laptop plugged into 120v power while uploading to the ecm
Must be something to it if all different tuners say the same thing
every tuner I have ever used in the doc's has said keep your laptop plugged into 120v power while uploading to the ecm
Must be something to it if all different tuners say the same thing
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