Service report
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The service report shows the current battery status as well as some less important information:
**************************************************** The battery efficiency is perhaps the most important piece of information. The sample shows a set of quite healthy NiCad batteries as the batteries are nominially rated for 100Ah. As you can see the mileage and the ampere hours conters shows garbled data. My experience is that this doesn't matter – it's just annoying. How to obtain this data?
You'll need a portable PC equipped with a terminal emulator
program (as Hyperterm, ZOC or whatever) and a simple serial cable
made like this: Both ends are ordinary female 9-pin D-sub plugs. Connect pin 1 to pin 1, cross pin 2 and 3 both ways, then connect pin 5 to pin 5. Optionally use the shield in the cable to connect the shields of the plugs. Connect the cable to the 9 pin serial port on the car controller, then insert the other end in your PC. Set up your terminal program to 9600 baud, no parity, 8 data bits 1 stop bit, XON/XOFF handshake and make sure that you're listening on the correct port; COM1, COM2 or whatever. To obtain the data turn off the ignition, then press the TRIP COUNTER RESET button in the middle on the dashboard. (There is a push-button on the car controller itself on some older models.) A similar listing to what shown above should appear on your PC. It's quite handy to keep logs of this: Use the terminal program's logging facility to log the listing to a text file. A Palm III, V or Vx or
any Palm compatible device with a serial port can also be used. Devicing your own
cable can be a bit tricky due to the special connectors on the Palm but the cable
issed with the Palm Travelling Kit (product #10413U for the Palm V/Vx) works
perfectly. You'll also need a suitable terminal program, for example “Online”.
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Updated: 28. May 2002
