• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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Power Commander 5 - I don't quite get it..

cjard

cjard

Husqvarna
C Class
So I'm reading the blurb about PCV and it's saying..

..map switch
..gear input
..NEW Power Commander V w/ Built in Ignition Control, gain control over fuel delivery AND timing with the new Power Commander V
..MAP sensor
..AFR sensor

And I'm reading it and thinking.. er.. isn't that an ECU? Why is this thing a plugin for your existing ECU when it pretty much replaces it anyway? The only things I can think my ECU would still be useful for after putting one of those bad boys on.. would be waiting until the motor is running before activating the headlight relay and running the rev counter ;)

So, yeah - is it just that the ECU is so lame and unprogrammable that one of these would be fitted, making the ECU redundant?
 
PCV for the Mikuni ECU (and some Keihin) does have full control over the timing also. part #23-009 would cover all Mikuni ECU and give you fuel and timing control.

To answer cjard question - the fueling and timing adjustments the PCV is doing is still based on the stock ECUs tables. We are simply making adjustments to them post ECU. You are right in that it is somewhat redundant in everything the PCV can do these days. It would actually be easier for us to do all the fueling and timing instead of making trims and still reporting back to the ECU to make it happy. The problem with stand alone ECUs is that it would only take one small change from the manufacturer and we would have to design a whole new unit, running costs up dramatically.
 
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