vristang said:
Grady,
So is CalCon better in 1.2?
How do you avoid the data spikes?
1.2 datalogs actually open in Excel?
Maybe I should just play with this myself, huh?
jason
Well Jason
Here is a thing or two I've seen from looking at both versions of data logs
I've been using the Tweecer from almost its inception so I did not have access to data Analyzer tools for a very long time.
The default play back viewer in all versions of CalCon was pretty much useless to me. True ... the dashboard and window value displays look cool and all ... but still ... at least to my way of thinking ... Mostly Bells & Whistles.
I found looking at the raw data in Excell gave me a better view of the big picture
I could use Excells filters to quickly find average, low, and high values
I also could quickly throw the data in a chart for a revealing view of what was really going on
Log Analyst then came along
It allows for a quick & easy view of charted AND raw data display with one click to switch back and forth between them ... Thank You Daren
Log Analyst also has EXCELLENT file comparison abilities which I found so helpful
When EEC Analyzer came along, I found it to be a great tool and used it right along with my older ways of analyzing data.
I just found E A to be more cumbersome ... some of the time
I could click on a file in Explorer and see my data pop up in Excell before E A had even opened up
The help files in E A are great

... no doubt about it, Clint did an excellent job with the software

... but I did not use them all that much
Over time ... I found I used E A ... less and less.
Here is where I found 1.30 to be
Around the time 1.30 came out, I was working with various people and they went to 1.30. I could not use my choice of tools to analyze their data with the newer 1.30 CalCon version
I spent like TWO HOURS

on the first 1.30 data log a guy sent me before I figured out the the spikes & dropouts in the raw data was skewing the results and each and every one of them had to be found and deleted before I had accurate data to work with.
I'll put it like this ... a BIG pile of bs ... if i ever saw one
That kind of thing says the product should not have passed some kind of Quality Control if you ask me.
btw ... 1.20 does not have data dropouts & spikes
Anyway ... sorry for the rant ... but ...
Analyzing software is
supposed to be a tool to help me
Not cause more work for me
One last thing Jason ..........
We only addressed the datalogging ...............
We didn't even talk about the tuning software ...............
Different thread ........ Later story ........
Grady