VE colours vs AFR table

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Philip Lochner
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VE colours vs AFR table

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In the VE table and tuning windows, more fuel uses colours towards the red spectrum whereas in the AFR window, richer areas become blue and leaner areas become red.

Is this intentional meaning blue = safe and lean = dangerous? To me it seems that the AFR table should be the other way round where red = rich and blue = lean.
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Re: VE colours vs AFR table

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I prefer red as dangerous (lean) and blue as safe (rich), especially because that's how my little LED meter works.
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Re: VE colours vs AFR table

Post by LT401Vette »

Naturally I use the same table widget all over, not just for VE, Spark, AFR... In TS, but it is the same one I originally built for MLV. The different colors for up and down are from MegaLogViewer VE Analyze. So it was a quick way to not just see what changed during VE Analyze but you can see what went up and what went down.
So with it being Fuel, yes the thought was that if VE Analyze had richened it, it is less concerning than if it had leaned it. If you have many leaned cells you should give it a look.

So with that short history... You can see the same logic doesn't necessarily hold up on spark or AFR tables, they are just different colors. :)
To alter the up and down colors for other table types, that should really come from the meta data, so the ini file as TS doesn't really know what an AFR or Spark table are. The problem there is always that it can only apply going forward or you would have to go back and edit a bunch of old ini's.

But I could use some regular expressions to perhaps reverse the colors for those table types without having to make a mess in the code to identify the other tables...
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