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The ironic thing about this is that you heard it here first!!

That's right, this hasn't been posted on ms3efi.com yet LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9VKPa4Sh28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWf_Fz353lY

Pretty bad quality videos, get it together James, your fans want to see it more clearly! :-p ;-) :-)

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I'd have to agree the quality is quite poor. I suspect they are "protecting" their IP. It's such a poor quality, I also question if it really is ms3.
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It's probably the XEP100 demo board with some proto board additions. And the code is probably an early version of MS3 code which is based on MS2/extra ported to the new CPU. They most certainly have 8 ignition channels and probably now have 8 sequential injection channels. But that's just speculation.

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Yeah, it's definitely what Jean said, code maketh the product so he's right to call it MS3 IMO. Just like I'm right to call the mess of wires on my desk FreeEMS ;-)

I doubt the vid is bad on purpose. I don't know what James uses, but he needs an upgrade!!

The real question is, why the hell did I manage to post this up here before he did on the other site. It had had 30 views when I got to it. Was it posted on msefi or msextra instead? If so, why?

Just had a nosey on msextra, no posts... Ditto, still no posts on ms3efi about it. I wonder why it's not shared proudly in public in an obvious way?

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http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=9u2ElAO102Q
http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=T0wzNhpHfPU

A couple more old 2007 vids of James running an engine with the XEP100 demo board :-)

A picture of his test rig, looks a lot like mine except he has "flash" plywood instead of cardboard ;-)

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Apparently these are the final specs as apparently decided months ago :
CPU - 144 pin MC9S12XEP100
Single box pre-assembled non-DIY design, likely 3 ampseal connectors, plus USB/serial
8x hi-z fuel
8x logic spark
I have to say, I've been pushing for high Z and no spark all along LOL. Still, if we manage low Z and spark on board we have something a bit different/more than they do in that respect which could be nice. Also, if ms3 will require Jean's board I'll feel less bad about having low Z on board (though I'm still wary of issues caused by noise from it, but that can be engineered away...)

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While first I was arguing about the whole "software is the product" thing... No matter WHAT they do hardware wise, I don't see the MS3 as being worth checking out based on the MS-II codebase. Period.

Both the hardware and the software have way too many shortcuts and things they knew were wrong but never fixed.

I have to applaud some of the progress they make but still... so much of it needs replacing. I'd rather see a fixed MS-II than something new.
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right now it is still up in the air what sort of calculations the MS-III will be using.
I don't know about you guys, but to me that screams "model based" which will delay ms3 so long it just won't be funny.

I could be wrong. I hope if I am and J||K are reading this that they log in and correct me.

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