OBD2 question

ninjakris · Jun 12, 2013

Hi guys, I need a little insight here.

I have purchased two different Bluetooth OBD2 dongles to work with a tablet for running programs like torque. The problem I am having is both dongles are not powering on. I tried both dongles in different vehicles and they work fine. Is there something special about a gen III computer that I don't know about. I figured a gen IV might cause some issues but not a gen III. Also, the car is a Paxton car. Does that have something to do with it? Any insight here would be helpful. I'm tired of trial and error here. I want to get my tablet retrofit project going, but not until I get all the programming figured out first.

Will at RSI · Jun 12, 2013

As a Paxton car, is the engine management a piggyback of the stock system or is it AEM?

ninjakris · Jun 12, 2013

As far as I know the engine management is whatever comes with the Paxton kit. I have a SCT tuner waiting for a tune down the road, but she runs good for the time being.

Allan · Jun 12, 2013

Pin 16 of the DLC is supposed to have battery power. That is what powers up the scan tool or programmer or whatever.
Pin 4 is ground.
It's common to have a blown fuse causing no power at pin 16,........... check for that.

:eater:

ninjakris · Jun 14, 2013

Allan said:
Pin 16 of the DLC is supposed to have battery power. That is what powers up the scan tool or programmer or whatever.
Pin 4 is ground.
It's common to have a blown fuse causing no power at pin 16,........... check for that.

Your the man! It was a blown fuse. All is well in the world now. Time to continue with the tablet install.

Allan · Jun 14, 2013

Way cool!..... :2tu:

The DLC fuse is usually common to the cigarette lighter / 12v aux power circuit.
(most vehicles)

Fuse blows when a cell phone charger, or other accessory has a short in the cord, or draws too much current.

I have also seen coins or other junk in the cig lighter hole.

Canadian Snake · Jun 16, 2013

Hey NinjaKris, Did you get the Torque program up and running? Any reviews? What tablet are u running?

ninjakris · Jun 16, 2013

Canadian Snake said:
Hey NinjaKris, Did you get the Torque program up and running? Any reviews? What tablet are u running?

I did get the torque program up and running but I still need to work some stuff out. For some reason it asks me for the Bluetooth password every time I connect to the obd2 dongle. As for the program itself, its pretty cool. You can customize a lot of stuff. One thing I have noticed is it lags a little but nothing horrible. My favorite gauge right now is the GPS speedometer. I have a large digital number displayed and its way easier to use than the dash.

I will hopefully have this all done within a couple months. Its my project to work on when I have time, but I work full time and am taking two classes right now so time is yard to come by these days.

Grisoman · Jun 16, 2013

Would be interested in a pic of how you mounted your tablet.

ninjakris · Jun 16, 2013

Grisoman said:
Would be interested in a pic of how you mounted your tablet.

I'm still working on that. I have a couple options to go with but I'm not going to worry about mounting until I get all the bugs worked out first.

I'm using a 32gb Asus nexus 7.

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