Please help, newb trying to connect fes to ABS ECU....

[steviestilo]

Hi,

I bought a 409.1 kkl cable from eBay and downloaded the free fes.

I have a Stilo 1.2

I am trying to connect to my abs ecu so have soldered a wire between pins 1 and 7
(although even before I modified the cable. Couldn't connect to the engine ecu which I think should have worked!?)

I have tried several driver versions and 2x different laptops running XP and windows 7. I have set the port settings as per the usage guide.

When I run the test from within the fes settings menu I get the following

Testing latency with 200 bytes of data...
Min latency: 2
Max latency: 3

Testing timers ...
(The acceptable tolerance for results is ~5ms)
System supports high resolution timer
Testing timer with 1000ms..
..result: 1014ms

Testing timer with 250ms...
..result: 262ms

Testing timer with 750ms...
The operation has timed out.

When I try to connect to any of the abs ecu types or the engine ecu (or others) I get no ecu response - check cable....

Can anyone please help or suggest what to try next.

I am prepared to buy another cable if you think it would help. Mine is a winchiphead one whereas most people seem to be using fetid ones from eBay....? Does anyone have a link to a known good cable on eBay.

Thanks very much. Peter

[EnIgMa]

Recover the device as stock.... so you're sure that there is no pin and bridge or solder issue.
Then unistall the drivers of that device and make sure there are no traces of old drivers...

Starting again with a clear and new installation try the drivers that came with the device.
At the begin don't touch any driver settings...

REMEMBER to ALWAYS hook up the cable to the obd in your car, then to your computer AND turn on the dash! Always! before you try any software or diagnose...

At this point go to the device manager and play a little bit with that, but don't touch all the settings.. just ceck the number of the com-port assigned and use it on FES...

I used to double check my device with another software that try every port/connection automatically...and doesn't seem to have latency problems...
google "scanmaster-elm", download it and try..
it can be useful.

If you can't get it working...
google for "kkl drivers" or "rs232 drivers" because the kkl cable, in reality it is a rs232 chip based interpreter...

try both the software... then play with latency...

Hope you already read this part: http://www.multiecuscan.net/HowToUse.aspx

Only when everything will work fine then mod the device to diagnose the ABS.

ps.
again, don't forget to plug the cable first (obd+usb) and turn the key to turn on the dash!
I got so many time mad before realize i forgot that!