possible to set up a warning light?

[sideways-dan]

i have a dl1 with motec ecu interface and a dash3. i have many high/low warnings set up such as high/low oil pressure, overboost, water temp, oil temp, etc.

The problem is that when an alarm is activated the screen just changes to display the warning and the shift lights no longer illuminate. its just not eye catching enough and in the heat of racing i do not see any of the warnings. is it possible to have the alarm trigger an external light at the same time or even have it strobe the shift lights or something? seems pointless having an alarm if you cant see them! i do have a separate high intensity low oil pressure light but not for anything else.

Thanks, Dan

[sideways-dan]

sorry, double post.

[sideways-dan]

Any update on this. There were replies saying the software will be updated to flash the shift lights but I can't see them now. Is this update going to happen?

[osborni]

You need a data logger / display that has an output driver. The newer Dash2 pro and the DL1 mk3 have those.

Personally, I use a separate set of warning lights from Longacre. I have a DL1mk2 and a Dash2 (original version).

[Turby]

Are the LED's not configurable as a "resource", ie some can be allocated to shift lights and others to alarms ? or even a combination such that when an LED's is used for alarms and shiftlights, then alarms take precedence...

I've no idea for RT dash's but this is how some other dash's work...

[osborni]

The Dash2 (not pro) will flash the shift lights and change the display for an alarm. I do not know about the Dash3

[Support]

You can use the shift lights to indicate a warning as well as RPM.

If you set the shift lights to be using a user defined variable



You then need to create a equation for the user defined channel.
- If water is more then 100 or oil temp is more then 140 output 7000 else output RPM



Kind regards,
Support (K)

[sideways-dan]

this is great! thanks!

So just to be clear i can have the shift lights working as normal until there is an alarm and then have the shift lights flashing (by doing as you have described) along with a display telling me what the alarm is (by setting the alarm in the variable) as long as the 2 are set to the same value?

i think i understand how to make the custom equation by following the example. can i just keep adding to it to get all the alarms i need by adding it after another "or"?

for example: if(VAR_1007>105 or VAR_0201>130 or VAR_0200<1 or VAR_1000>60 or VAR_0203>950,7000,VAR_0010)

[sideways-dan]

tried this today and it works a treat!

I decided to set my all lights flashing to 10,000rpm and use that for the alarms only so when the lights flash i know its an alarm.

[CharlesElliott]

Or you have just downshifted three gears by mistake

[Turby]

So when its in an alarm condition you loose shift lights? I guess the alarm condition will have to be really important rather than an indication or warning.

[sideways-dan]

Or you have just downshifted three gears by mistake

Yea or that haha.

So when its in an alarm condition you loose shift lights? I guess the alarm condition will have to be really important rather than an indication or warning.

The shift lights work as normal until an alarm is activated. The shift lights then all flash and the alarm is displayed on the screen. The alarm can be cleared from the screen but the lights continue to flash until there is no longer an alarm condition. I have alarms set for lots of engine parameters such as: coolant temp, oil temp, oil pressure, overboost, inlet air temp, exhaust gas temp etc. all of which i consider important and possibly engine saving. If i had this in the past i could have saved multiple engines. Having the alarms also allows the driver to concentrate on driving with no need to check important engine parameters.