• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

The iBeat Thread

clumsy_culhane said:
Hi guys,

I know I'm very late to the game on this one. I have a 2011 TE630 I'm trying to connect to iBeat, and not having much luck!

I have the blue KKL VAG-COM that everyone else is using, and I also picked up the Lonelec cable (https://www.lonelec.co.uk/Motorbike-OBD-Diagnostic-Cables/component/Husqvarna-6pin-OBD2-Adaptor), as I tried doing it myself and had the same issue, so I was hoping a proper cable would fix things.

Running a fresh windows XP install on VirtualBox on a macbook, drivers install fine and device appears in device manager. Every time I try to connect in iBeat it fails with "Communication Stops". I've tried a bunch of different drivers, windows XP on Parallels , to no avail.

Has anyone else had similar problems? I've read every thread on here and most people seem to get caught on the cable step, which I think I have resolved. My only other option at this point is to run a virtual XP on my PC and drag that to the garage, but I dont see why VirtualBox on a mac would change anything!
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How do you match COM with MacBook? you go to device manager with a windows machine, you need to match the COM with virtual machine & the Mac/PC. You need to attach USB in the tab at the top of the screen as well. Im running ibeat on a Windows 7 Pro laptop in Virtual XP.
 
Quick question. I adjusted my 630 using @dynobob's setting and it runs well, but now I want to set up my TE 250. Because it has a 300 conversion (I think), I'm getting it checked / setup on a dyno. The question is about updating the CO with the engine running as I've not done this before. Can I connect, then start up and adjust CO on the go - do the updates stick if done like this so as soon as I change the CO the fuel is modified and the AFR will see the difference immediately?
 
Eoin said:
Quick question. I adjusted my 630 using @dynobob's setting and it runs well, but now I want to set up my TE 250. Because it has a 300 conversion (I think), I'm getting it checked / setup on a dyno. The question is about updating the CO with the engine running as I've not done this before. Can I connect, then start up and adjust CO on the go - do the updates stick if done like this so as soon as I change the CO the fuel is modified and the AFR will see the difference immediately?
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According to the manual the engine has to be running to be able to change the settings at all.
Here'a link to it.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2kvk2rztd7bx6uc/iBeat_OperationManual-English.pdf?dl=0
 
It went OK. A bit confusing because I've never set up on a dyno with iBeat. I was expecting a clear split between CO 1, 2 and 3, but found changes to 1 also affected higher rpm / throttle values. The 250 apparently has a 300 barrel, but I can't find any Athena ECU so decided that the starting figures of 95-100-100 would be way too low. In fact, they were OK, not super lean, but the power curve was rough. After messing around with various brake settings, the engine seemed happiest on a richer setting at around 12.5:1. This gave a smooth power curve and good throttle response. We did try full throttle at one point, but we got a traction break on the roller, so it was a bit dodgy (knobblies). That run gave 24 BHP at the wheel. Final settings 100-110-110 gave a flat AFR through the rev range.
 
Hello! Help me, please. I read the entire forum about setting up ibeat, but I couldn't find the information I needed anywhere. please clarify, I have a lambda sensor. before installing the resistor, do you need to change any values ​​of FB, TPS, WOT? now FB 100-100-100. WOT 102.4% at maximum throttle. maybe I need to change FB with lambda and then remove the lambda and put a resistor and adjust the CO?
 
When you remove the Lambda and install the resistor, the ECU will switch to Power Up mode, a different map. You don't need iBeat or to change any settings for this.

CO can be used to change the fueling in Power Up mode, dependent on your setup (different exhaust and / or inlet).
 
I an't say as I have no experience of a bad ECU. Do you know anyone local with a Mikuni FI / iBeat Husky? Dorsn't have to be a 630. Try connecting to that.
 
I did not know other model ECU's could be used. Any idea what other bikes use Mikuni FI? I couldnt find a list
 
Hey guys,

Got my Cable from the UK finally, going to try and connect to my TE630 tomorrow. Ive got Windows 7 32bit running on a laptop and I finally got the drivers sorted for the cable, but when I use the iBeat software it gives me communication stops error. I have set the COM port correctly, was just wondering if this is normal if the bike isn't connected? Just want to check it all works before I do it for real tomorrow. If no one replies before then Ill reply to this with an update anyway. Thanks.
 
Valheru said:
Hey guys,

Got my Cable from the UK finally, going to try and connect to my TE630 tomorrow. Ive got Windows 7 32bit running on a laptop and I finally got the drivers sorted for the cable, but when I use the iBeat software it gives me communication stops error. I have set the COM port correctly, was just wondering if this is normal if the bike isn't connected? Just want to check it all works before I do it for real tomorrow. If no one replies before then Ill reply to this with an update anyway. Thanks.
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you have to use xp with windows 7 will not work. in any case if the bike is not connected to the access panel you will always have an error message. here you can see how I connect
View: https://youtu.be/8U6oy8XtS20
 
Rotax_655 said:
you have to use xp with windows 7 will not work. in any case if the bike is not connected to the access panel you will always have an error message. here you can see how I connect
View: https://youtu.be/8U6oy8XtS20
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Thanks alot for that, puts my mind at ease now. Currently have a PU plug and dual Barrett exhaust on my TE with snorkel removed, will change CO from stock to 102/105/118 as an initial test and then go from there.

Really appreciate all the info in this thread, has made my work alot easier.
 
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