Hey all, got a problem and I'm still waiting on Haltech to get back to me on it, which from what I've read so far, I may be waiting a LONG time. I've had my E6K installed on my car for about a year now, with no problems until Monday. Tried to start my car and noticed I didn't hear the fuel pump start at key on... uh oh. So I hooked up my laptop to see if I could find anything screwy... and it wouldn't communicate at all.

I've checked all the fuses to make sure that wasn't it, I even checked all the wiring to see if somthing got pinched somehow that hadn't been a problem before. Absolutely nothing I could find wrong, got power to the unit, good ground, but no communication with the Haltech, and no juice to the fuel pump or ignition.

So the question is, what do I do now? Do I send it to Dallas? Sydney? Anyone got a fix for it? Bought it from RP a year ago, so I doubt they can do anything to help, but if you know different, let me know!

Thanks in advance everyone.

John M.
'93 Base RX-7

 

I would first contact the place you purchased the unit from. they should be able to handle any repairs or warranty issues. otherwise you will have to call Haltech in Australia.

 

Thanks Tim, that's what I was hoping to hear, and considering they're in Dallas, they probably have dealt with Haltech USA on a more personal basis too.

 

Haltech USA is no longer around, as far as I know. all problems are handled by the home office now. unless something has changed recently.

 

Double check the fuses. I had a similiar problem. I check all the fuses twice myself. I called a friend over to help, turned out to be a blown fuse. You could barely tell it was broke.

 

i had the same problem... it WAS the fuse. it did not apear to be bad, but after i swaped it with another 20a fuse it kickedright on...

 

what do you mean no comunication to haltech? when you try online mode it wont go through??? hmmm... i am also haveing a similar problem after using my laptop for a friends F9.... it will comunicate on another laptop, but my *usual* one wont go through any more.
anyone have a suguesion of why? at first the F9 would not connect to the laptop via dos and starting the F9 program that way so we used the F9 disk to run it and it went right through.... next time i tried to run e6k on it like i always do... the status bar just comes up and green never goes anywhere nor does it even show up... its just a blank space.

 

might have changed some of the serial port properties. check to make sure the settings for the serial port are correct. win95 changes mine on occasion. I know it has to be the OS as the only thing I use the laptop for is programming the Haltech. off the top of my head I don't remember what the settings are but a check of the manual and you should be set.

 

thanks for the reply tim, i just didnt have time to really *look* to much into it. i dont think the port settigns changed as i glanced at them... and my WBO2 logging still works on the same settings... and i know its not my haltech as it does talk to another laptop..

 

Well, I'd agree with this, but I had normal power at the pin-"ins" to the ECU. So I'll change out my fuse and see if there's any difference, but Haltech emailed me back and said it sounds like a "major system fault" and told me to send it in to them. *shrug* Anyway, thanks for the suggestions guys!

 

Well, I finally figured out what happened... teach me to not be around to see how my tuner wired up the harness. Seems when I did the conversion to 5-spd and removed the EC-AT unit, it did unhappy things with the wires he spliced into, no EC-AT, no juice. So I've got the Haltech talking again, now... I just have to get the fuel pump hooked up again. Just wish he hadn't cut the flying leads off so short!

Anyway, thanks for the help guys! I'm just an idiot sometimes.

(I was also getting screwy readings from my "trusty" multi-meter, so I really wasn't getting good power at the pin-in's)