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    Default LC-1 - cannot connect

    Okay, I installed my LC-1 per the instructions at http://www.innovatemotorsports.com/r...1_tutorial.pdf :

    Red wire going to a free Acc port in the fuse box
    Yellow goes to pin C on a Flashscan v1
    Blue, Green, and White go to pin D
    Black goes to the LED and pushbutton (in parallel) and then through them to ground.
    Brown is not connected.

    Wideband is on a separate bung, it will not be emulating an NB sensor.

    It doesn't work. The LED is constant, pressing the button to start calibration does not do anything other than turn off the LED. Trying to connect via LM Programmer gives a "please connect the device to a serial port" error message. My laptop is old enough to have a real serial port so I am not going through an adapter.

    I saw a thread that looked similar at http://forum.efilive.com/showthread....-lc-1-help-plz. but frankly it confused me. Are the instructions as given from Innovate incomplete -- should there be a connection between D and ground, or should brown/blue/white be connected somewhere other than D.. or is there a power switch somewhere on the LC-1 that I'm not seeing or something along those lines?

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    Blue has to go to vehicle's battery ground.

    Connect the ground from the bottom of the LED/pushbutton to the same ground as blue.

    Try with white grounded and floating.

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    Sanity check:

    red -> power (switched, fused, battery)
    blue -> ground (battery)

    black-> LED anode, pushbutton
    white -> LED cathode, pushbutton

    brown -> V1 pin C (signal)
    green or white or sheath -> V1 pin D (signal ground)

    yellow is programmed for NBO2 signal emulation; yellow can go to V1 pin C, but you have to reprogram the LC-1.

    May or may not have to also connect green and/or white to battery ground (mine works regardless).

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    To program the LC-1 using the LM Programmer software, you have to connect this:
    LC-1 SERIAL IN <- terminator plug (looks like a blanked 2.5mm stereo plug),
    LC-1 SERIAL OUT -> PC

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    Thanks, Joe. The ground made some difference; the programmer now can find the WB.

    However, neither EFILive nor LogWorks reads anything from it. EFILive just reports 0.0 and logworks reports "No real time data detected".

    Hopefully I'm just missing something small.

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    After a reboot, LogWorks can successfully talk to the sensor. However, I still get no data through either the yellow or brown wires. I've tried with white both to pin D and floating, with no difference.

    I have both green and blue connected to pin D, with an additional wire from pin D to the vehicle ground. That does seem to be sufficient for LogWorks, anyway -- is that the correct way?

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    Try removing blue from pin D (but keep blue going to vehicle/battery ground).

    The signal on the brown or yellow wires is wrt green or sheath.

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    Thanks, Joe. Does pin D also get connected to vehicle ground, or just to the green wire?

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    Pin D's primary function is to connect to signal ground... so try just the green wire.

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    Sigh... still no joy (I had such high hopes).

    Now LogWorks reports an AFR that bounces around all over the place -- even with power on/engine off -- so now I'm thoroughly confused. Reconnecting blue+ground and/or white to pin D doesn't get it stable again, and of course EFILive still doesn't get anything useful.

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