Daisy chainers
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Laughing Gas
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From: Lakeland, TN
Daisy chainers
Got my second Scangauge II and my daisy cable in the mail tonight. I wonder if the second unit will work as a monitor to the first unit, meaning it will just be a second screen for the first one, or if I will need to program the X-gauge codes into the second, just like I did in the first. Anybody know?
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Laughing Gas
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Pretty much. Actually sold by Linear Logic (makers of the ScanGauge II) specifically to link 2 units together.
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Laughing Gas
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I think you're probably right. I'll hook it up in the morning and then I'll report the results.
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Laughing Gas
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Will do. I plan to put the ones I really want to monitor only when towing on the new one and just pull it out then.
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The topic sounds like some thing fatal.
Have you called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yet?
I too think that your going to have to program
the second unit.
Sean
Have you called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention yet?
I too think that your going to have to program
the second unit.
Sean
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Laughing Gas
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Those who voted that programming the second unit would be necessary are correct. I'm assuming from here that the information just passes through the first unit to the second. Thus, I can load any x-gauge into any slot on the new unit without regard to what slot that same PID was in on the first unit. I'll program this afternoon, make sure that's true, and report.
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I was going to get another gauge, but I saw a few posts on the internet that said that when they hooked 2 ScanGauges up, that the refresh rate was too slow and they were experiencing intermittent error readings. I figured it was probably more trouble than it was worth, but if you have good luck with it, I'll probably try another one. 
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Laughing Gas
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I was going to get another gauge, but I saw a few posts on the internet that said that when they hooked 2 ScanGauges up, that the refresh rate was too slow and they were experiencing intermittent error readings. I figured it was probably more trouble than it was worth, but if you have good luck with it, I'll probably try another one.
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Laughing Gas
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Well, it's been 8 days now and there are problems. If I just start the truck, more than half of the time, some of the PIDs will not show a value at all. Almost always, if I push the red circled button after turning the key on to cycle the glow plugs but before starting the truck, all PIDs will display correctly. Occasionally, even if all PIDs start correctly, some PIDs will just freeze and show whatever value they were showing when they froze for as long as the drive continues. In short, I don't think I recommend getting a second unit and daisy chaining them. Though I believe the data that it shows is correct as long as it is running, I can't really count on any particular PID running at any given time. Obviously, the 2 units are much less reliable than the single unit I had before. Not sure what I plan to do now, but I welcome suggestions.
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Laughing Gas
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From: Lakeland, TN
IIRC from what I've read, I need a blue tooth adapter at my OBDII port and an app downloaded onto my iPhone. What's the out of pocket expense to get set up (roughly)?
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For a droid user the Torque app with a Bluetooth adaptor is the ticket.
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