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sixshooter 05-17-2017 01:34 PM


Originally Posted by Monk (Post 1415142)
Gender is mostly irrelevant in the context of @nal sex.

I should have asked an expert prior to commenting.
Lesson learned.

Girz0r 05-17-2017 04:04 PM


Originally Posted by Girz0r (Post 1412898)
So this is still ongoing. It is definitely a sensor of some sort as cycling the car off/on will reset the issue and make the car operate like normal. I just received a new TPS in the mail and will install it soon. Should I be looking at the idle air control valve as well?

Most recent, it happened this morning on my way to work. Was running fine until on the highway for some time. Fuel cut on decel suddenly didn't want to work. I shut the car off rolling at 60mph and restarted. Started to operate like normal again. :eggplant: :dunno: wut do?


Originally Posted by shuiend (Post 1412900)
Get rid of the Xede and get a MS3. We have been saying this for ages.

*knocks on wood*

TPS was replaced and reset ODB codes Friday afternoon after work. So far zero issues. Might be placebo effect but the throttle feels a bit more responsive. Car always goes in to overrun now. It's kinda nice having a normal car for this long :likecat: But of course my innovate wb sensor is going out, gets stuck on 'HTR' and never comes online. :hatecat: Win some, lose some.

aidandj 05-18-2017 03:18 PM

If any of you are shopping for a new oscilloscope....

A New Era in Scopes | Tektronix

/shameless plug

Joe Perez 05-18-2017 08:27 PM

^ I'm sure it'll be reasonably priced, easily within reach of the average home hobbyist.

aidandj 05-18-2017 08:30 PM

That's what we specialize in.

hi_im_sean 05-18-2017 10:55 PM

That thing would probably piss me off. I'm sure the software in it is junk, beta shit.

aidandj 05-18-2017 10:56 PM

But it triggers really really well.

Joe Perez 05-18-2017 11:01 PM

Was this the design you asked me about NTSC trigerring on a while back?

aidandj 05-18-2017 11:11 PM

Yeah. Lol that was a while ago.

honestly not sure what is supposed to be released before June 6th. But it's pretty awesome. Obviously I'm proud of it. It's got 2 years of my life shoved into it lol.

Joe Perez 05-18-2017 11:41 PM

I do hope that video trigger was excluded from the design. NTSC was a pox on humanity, and very much needs to be erased from history. Wanna know why, even in the 4k era, we're still timing at 59.94 Hz instead of 60? Because some asshole at RCA made a lazy decision in 1953, and that choice has haunted us all ever since.

We still use a lot of analog blackburst for timing reference (seriously, there are 70s vintage Grassy Valley DAs still pumping it around the plant- those fuckers refuse to die), but I have managed to completely extinguish analog composite video from on-air use at WPIX, WGN. We still have a lot of NTSC monitors left in service on older SD gear here, but I'm gradually replacing them with SDI monitors in all applications except for the two-dozen or so genuinely analog VTRs that we keep in service for archival use. And, to be honest, the few engineers who still know how to maintain that stuff also still prefer to use their 20-30 year old analog HP / Tek scopes while doing it, despite the fact that I have a shiny new Agilent 4-channel scope w/ 16 channel DSA sitting on the shelf gathering dust.

Video people are not your target market. Not anymore. My guys wouldn't know an FPGA from an SDR.



All that having been said, I'm still insanely jelly. :D

aidandj 05-18-2017 11:53 PM

We have a lot of features that we just hang on to for the one person that still uses them. Thankfully once something has been done the amount of effort to do it again is a lot less.

The amount of old serial buses we support is stupid. I found a few bugs in old products that had existed for 10 years. And nobody had used them haha.

Joe Perez 05-19-2017 12:03 AM


Originally Posted by aidandj (Post 1415660)
Thankfully once something has been done the amount of effort to do it again is a lot less.

Yes, but it clutters the UI for the end-user. :hatecat:

(Spoken from the perspective of someone who has had to make the painful choice to deprecate archaic but familiar standards in past product designs.)

aidandj 05-19-2017 12:35 AM

True. But I have no control over the UI. I just implement the hardware features. Marketing just sticks me with the shit to implement.

y8s 05-19-2017 11:26 AM

Joe is triggered by triggers.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.mia...5d1a983a51.gif

aidandj 05-19-2017 11:30 AM


Originally Posted by Joe Perez (Post 1415658)
new Agilent 4-channel scope w/ 16 channel DSA sitting on the shelf gathering dust.

Not sure we can be friends anymore.

Also lol at peasant number of channels :D

gooflophaze 05-19-2017 03:06 PM

heh.. I've got a 7854 that I need to fix one of these days. Had to ride in the passenger seat because it wouldn't fit in the trunk.

Girz0r 05-19-2017 03:46 PM

Has anyone used a npt socket plug for the compressor on a turbo? What size?

Looking to plug mine vs having the brass 90deg fitting that goes to the wastegate.

http://www.getfast1.com/assets/image...ddefadc_m.JPG?

EO2K 05-19-2017 03:52 PM


Originally Posted by Girz0r (Post 1415821)
Has anyone used a npt socket plug for the compressor on a turbo?

Yes.

Originally Posted by Girz0r (Post 1415821)
What size?

The one that fits correctly.

;)

Girz0r 05-19-2017 03:54 PM


Originally Posted by EO2K (Post 1415823)
Yes.

The one that fits correctly.

;)

Guess I'll buy all sizes up to 1/2... :jerkit:

Can't be more than a 1/8 or 1/4 amaright?

EO2K 05-19-2017 04:08 PM


Originally Posted by Girz0r (Post 1415824)
Can't be more than a 1/8 or 1/4 amaright?

That's probably a safe bet.

Unless of course its metric.

Or British Taper.

Or British Parallel.

Or Acme thread.

Don't you have a BEGI turbo? Perhaps they can help. :giggle:


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