Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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shaodome
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Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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Hi,

I was attempting to set this up on a customer car and it will not work at all. If the launch pin is armed, the nitrous will not spray, even with the "allow nitrous during launch" enabled. I've tried a few input pins now for nitrous and the same result. MSQ Attached.
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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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As a side note, this used to work on the earlier firmwares. I have not tested it since the allow nitrous during launch feature was added, which I think was 1.3? I'm reflashing to the latest release code 1.41 and will report back.
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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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OK, same problem on current release code. Strangely, when the engine hits the hard limit in the launch control settings, I see N2O 1 switch to ON as its on the spark cut limiter for 2step.
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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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I believe it has to be within the "soft zone" limit in order to spray. This is the case for my car with a 3x running 1.5a4, but I know a friend's car running older code, it is not the case.

Could we get this fixed? It doesn't make much sense to lock timing in a rapidly changing engine; and soft limit is restricted to 2000 rpm max.
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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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papiogxl wrote:I believe it has to be within the "soft zone" limit in order to spray. This is the case for my car with a 3x running 1.5a4, but I know a friend's car running older code, it is not the case.

Could we get this fixed? It doesn't make much sense to lock timing in a rapidly changing engine; and soft limit is restricted to 2000 rpm max.
I downgraded to 1.4 Alpha 8 and it works again. I'm thinking the nitrous not spraying till within the soft limiter is NOT by design, but maybe more like something goofy happening in the code when that part of the launch code does its thing?
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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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There was a bug report where nitrous was being enabled erroneously. I changed the code between "pre-1.4.1 beta4" and "pre-1.4.1 beta5"

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2016-04-02 JSM
Allow LS1 check tooth to be adjusted.
Launch control/nitrous checks launch-in, not launch on.
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I'll try out your MSQ on the bench and see what's going on.

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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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Replicated and believed resolved for the next pre-1.5 alpha and pre-1.4.x beta.

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Re: Nitrous and Transbrake no working in 1.5 alpha 4

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Please try pre-1.4.2 beta 1 (or later)

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