martifers Posted August 24, 2011 Share Posted August 24, 2011 With two TD5's in the family, one 2003 engined challenge truck and one 2004 D2 overlander, thought it wise to purchase some diagnostic equipment. Had seen how useful a Nanocom / Rovacom could be in the past but always had a mate nearby with equipment to beg / borrow / steal, but when competing or on another continent this is less easy... Seen a couple of Td5 powered trucks d.n.f at competitions because of relatively minor issues that could have been diagnosed / fixed. Anyway, bought the evolution earlier this week and after rewiring the diagnostics plug in my defender it seemed to work fine. Before I go any further, I purchased unlock codes to cover defender and disco Td5 for obvious reasons, and have used the Nanocom on a friends 2000 reg disco without issue. Not been able to try on my fathers disco yet. When I plug it into my defender, it boots fine, I can read and clear fault codes, access ECU info, look at outputs, utilities tests etc, but when I try and look at any inputs / live feeds the Nanocom seems to take a snap shot of the data then an error message pops up saying that there has been an error in ECU communication at which point the screen goes back to the data outputs previously shown, now frozen on the snap shot readings. This means I have no live readings, which is an area I wanted to use to analyse temperatures, pressures, air flow, fuelling etc. Has anyone else come across this or has some advise? The ECU has been remapped and I was wondering if this could have anything to do with it. I'm going to 'try' and speak to good old Porny tomorrow but wondered if anyone else might be able to shed some light or their 2 pence worth. Cheers Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martifers Posted August 29, 2011 Author Share Posted August 29, 2011 I have had some success here, so thought i'd update encase anyone else finds this useful. I have since found this error on not specific to my ecu. Having tried it on 3 ecu's. 2 Disco (2000 and 2004) and 1 Defender (2003) It only worked for live data on the 2000 Disco. I have had some useful correspondence with Colin at Black Box Solutions who has informed me that this live data issue with some Td5 ecu's is a known problem for which an update will be released shortly (once the premises move is complete - current taking place) to cover this and a couple of other things. Fingers crossed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alectrical Posted April 1, 2012 Share Posted April 1, 2012 Has an Update been released yet, I've got the same problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martifers Posted May 6, 2012 Author Share Posted May 6, 2012 There have been a number of firmware updates. There seems to have been a lot of bugs with the product. The latest update came out on 27.04.2012 and is available in the restricted area on www.nanocom.it website HTH Sharpie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazelle Posted May 14, 2012 Share Posted May 14, 2012 Have they released a fix which is successful for this yet and which allows the instrument mode to work on all TD5s? Martin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martifers Posted July 13, 2012 Author Share Posted July 13, 2012 Since April, yet another firmware update has been released on 5th June 2012 v1.11. In this update the instrument mode can now be entered at the data read menu level so you no longer have to turn the unit off and reboot to enter or leave this mode. Much prefer this edition, seems more stable and I've not encountered any problems thus far. It should not have been released for sale in it's original state last year. It was a beta model at best!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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