BBL killing widebands??????

[DrkPhx]

I am at my wit's end. I thought the problem was a junk product from Innovate. I am on my 4th LC1 cable...the previous 3 have died randomly.

Decided to move up to an LM1, worked great for a couple days until the instant that I tried black box logging with the LM1 hooked up via serial. BAM, LM1 is toast. Thinking back, the others may well have also died as soon as I tried BBL with them...I just never added it up until now.

What is the deal?? How come I keep smoking wideband controllers with V2 BBL????????

I know it doesn't help your situation, but I have used a LM1 with the serial cable to V2 BBL with zero problems for a year with no problems.

[Ira]

All I want to do is to be able to reprogram the @#!** things. There HAS to be some way of talking to these buggers without their Windows app.

That documentation is easily available on request from Innovate, but none of it will tell you how to update the flash, just how to read the data stream and tell it to do a free air calibration. Most or maybe all of the Innovate devices just start spewing data out the serial port when powered up. I know the digital WB gauge I designed and built does not communicate, just listens and as soon as an LC1 gets power it starts reporting it's status.

If I could find the doc I'd tell you what it allows, but it must be on another computer.

Ira

[mistermike]

Thanks, Ira.