Originally Posted by chip-3door
Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird
Originally Posted by chip-3door
Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird
Originally Posted by chip-3door
Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird
Originally Posted by jon@work
unless you want it to drive a Pectel monitor
SECS monitors will still work though. The only reason the Pectel won't is to protect the software, as the Pectel monitors use data-streaming
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Oh the irony of it, its developed off of the back of cracking the original software and then made less useful to those with a pectel by being protected against anyone doing it back to them
Even more ironic is that it comes with the ability to password protect maps, so tuners can now protect their software in the same way as with Pectel T6
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Thats cool, but from the point of view of most people buying a programmable ECU it would make it useless to them as they couldnt edit it themselves afterwards or go to anyone other than that tuner, in fact arguabley its WORSE from that respect than a standard ECU.
But thats just a case of finding a tuner who will not use that option at your request i guess.
I'm not sure how you make that out, as a private individual can chose to lock the map or not, unless of course you mean if it was purchased off someone like Stu / Karl / Ahmed / PJ / GGR / TS / Martin or Harvey etc (which we see as our biggest market) who would want to protect their software from being copied and used by someone else?
Someone buying it as a toy to experiment with can still do so
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I envisage a lot of people would want to:
Buy the kit
Have it mapped initially by "a pro"
Be able to fine tune it as things change on their engine
Obviously if the "pro" in question locks the map, that means that those people cant ever edit it themselves, and also couldnt take it to any other tuner for adjustments, they would have no choice but to go back to the person who mapped it initially.
Im sure that suits the tuners just fine though, and people buying the ECU's have the choice of using a tuner or not based on if they will lock the map or not anyway.
So i wasnt being negative, just pointing out both sides of it.
I'm sure the tuner will know his client base well enough to know whether or not it is safe to leave unlocked or not, at the end of the day, it is the aimed at both sides, and the tuners wanted this ability.