Thread: Autotune switch
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Old 06-08-10, 16:16
dazmatic dazmatic is offline
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Kev..

Here's something that'll interest you.

I've just been for a ride after installing my switch.

Now, bare in mind that as far as I know, my AIS is blocked off with insulation tape and before installing my new switch, I had a ****ty switch attached under the seat and was always on.
So as far as I was aware, the autotune was constantly making and applying trim adjustments when I was riding untill I turned the bike off in which all the trims were lost as I was unable to turn the switch off as it was under the seat.

Now, after going for a ride just now, with the autotune on, I noticed I had some severe surging lower down in the rpm range, I'm talking bucking bronco!

But as soon as I turned it off, it was fine, no bucking no surging, nothing.


Edit:
Just got off the Phone to dynojet UK.
Apparently, when the switch is off, the autotune is off and does nothing, makes no changes to the map or trim.
When the switch is on, the autotune is on and makes changes to the trim table and applies them on top of the base map, but makes no changes to the base map.
When you then switch the autotune off after its been on, it doesn't make any changes to the base map either.

All of which is different to what the manual says!

So I took to listening instead, and down a quiet road, rode along at around 25mph in 3rd and I could hear the AIS clicking open and close. What I found was if like this, I had the autotune off, no bucking.
Soon as I turned it on, it started bucking again... pretty much in time with the AIS clicking!!

So what does this tell me?

Well, I've not touched my AIS for sometime but I think it may not be as blocked off as I thought, because if the autotune is on then its taking readings and applying them in real time. If the AIS isn't blocked, it'd screw with the autotunes readings causing it to surge with the AIS.

However, I asked myself, if the AIS isn't blocked, how long has it been like it i I haven't touched it for some time? Why didn't it do it before when the autotune was on all the time?
Maybe it wasn't... maybe the switch I used before was defunct and didn't work? or wasn't on? It was fairly old...

So... to troubleshoot, I shall re-double my AIS blocking off technique and make sure nothing can get through.

Any ideas for making sure its deffinately blocked off?
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Last edited by dazmatic; 06-08-10 at 16:55.