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Old 01-31-2018, 08:48 PM   #1
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Strange EcuTek problem

Flashed a new tune file to my car this morning and needed to grab some logs for my tuner, something I've done many times before.

So before I hit the road, I connected my AC charger to a 12V power inverter then to my Dell laptop. When I tried to set up logging...I got several errors shown below. I thought maybe I knocked the EcuTek cable loose when I was plugging in the power so I checked all that...same problem. When I unplugged the laptop and went back on battery...problem disappeared! Confirmed that when I hooked up power back to the laptop...issue returned. (so I grabbed the screenshots)

Must be some weird ground loop or something through the inverter/power pack causing the problem. Maybe I'll try it with real AC power and see what happens?

I'm just glad I didn't do it during the actual flash process!
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