Hi Fred.
I am have trouble starting my engine. The real problem is that I am using a really flat battery and I am not getting sync, I guess because of the low RPM and my funny trigger wheel is not generating pulses.
The car will start fine using the distributor.
Any way I don't want to waste your time trying to sort out my problem with software when I should be buying a better battery and making a new trigger wheel.
If it is of any help I have logs.
Your point about the PM is noted. I had every intention of make this a forum post if you wanted to look into my problem.Fred wrote: File an issue! No, I'm serious. Dan (slater) has issues with flat batteries and sync too. If you could log the input with your open bench while having this trouble as well as a matching (from same session) binary datalog that might be helpful. We need to be able to start these things when they have flat batteries too. It's possible that the angle sucks and the pulses all look the same because of where it falls on compression/power stroke, but if it's possible to look at the LA trace or a histogram of the data from it, and recognise the missing tooth with your eyes, then we should be able to do it in software too. The default setup might just be too fussy for cranking. That's the case for other decoders too, with respect to time tolerance. Check that in the log, if the reason for sync loss is stated as time tolerance, then you can fix it with a setting (maybe) if not, as your last log wasn't, then we need to look at the logic/math for missing detection a bit closer.
Lastly, I'd encourage you to post your PM to me and my reply, in full, or trimmed suitably (only if you want to), to a thread on "low battery starting issues with missing tooth" or similar and pm em_knaps about the thread's existence. I've been making a lot of noise about this recently, and it should serve as an example to those people violating the site rules (2 and 4). And yes, you can included this block, if you choose to post this message up at all. It's no secret that I strongly prefer open discussions on development and am not shy about having my work criticised and bugs filed. On the contrary, in fact, I welcome it!
I hope this helps, and hopefully, if you post it all up, it can help others too!
The lesson for today is that you should post every thing on the forum even if you think it's a dumb question.
I hope to have the Logs and LA done soon.