RX and ground. Ground is the same as the ecu and engine ground; take this fact in to account on industrial installations to avoid ground loops. Signal levels are of 3,3V TTL. Under request Xicoy Electronica can supply a 3 wire lead installed in place of the RJ12 connector, or a RS232 compliant lead.
BASIC SETUP: The list of measures and commands available in the current software release are described in the protocol section. If the adaptor is going to be used in a flight vehicle and on this application is necessary to have the information of fuel flow and remaining tank capacity, due that several fadec models don’t support these measures, the adapter itself can calculate these values from the data retrieved from the fadec, plus a couple of parameters to be programmed on the adapter.
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Pump factor: The unit calculates the fuel used from the pump power supplied the fadec. Different pump models move different amounts of fuel at same voltage, so this factor should be set to suit your particular engine+pump+installation. At moment of writing we don’t have a table of values for the different engines on the market.
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Serial interface protocol and electrical connections: Electrical: Pin 1 is the TX pin, pin 6 is the RX pin, and pin 5 is ground. Do not connect anything else on other pins, these pins are connected directly to CPU and can damage it. Nominal electrical levels are of 3,3V.
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Example: To retrieve the data displayed on the LCD screen of the fadec. The command is “RSD”. Then the command would be: C7h 2Ch 52h 53h 44h 2Ch 0Dh C7h -> Sync 2Ch -> “,” Separator 52h -> “R” 53h -> “S” 44h ->...
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Command Meaning Answer (Payload) Update Adapter Fadec rate version models Read Screen Data ASCII text 32 byte Read Current Values RPM, EGT in ºC, Pump Power, Voltage of Battery, Throttle % -> Send to the fadec a keypress on the “+” button Data Up Command ->...