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I bought a used AP Engineering powerFc off yahoo japan which I am running on my NA 180sx which is now been turbo'ed. I took it into HiPower Racing in slacks creek for tuning and they said they could not connect to my power fc, but also said the tune and air/fuel are fine. Anyone had experience with a locked PowerFC???

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what were they using to connect to it. the only way to lock a power fc is with datalogit, and that only locks certain settings from being changed via the hand controller

They said they could not connect using their laptop. I dont know what software they are running

They said the tune and air/fuel mixtures are fine which is lucky as I have fitted an old HKS2540 turbo with screamer, and S15 480cc injectors, etc, and i find it very very very unlikely that whatever car the power fc was fitted to in Japan was running this combo

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if they're using datalogit and your power fc version isnt supported they need to contact datalogit. if it is supported then they shouldnt have any trouble connecting, did they check all the connections and drivers?

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agree with jono, check the basics

if

datalogit says unable to connect or unable to open com port

- check com port

- check usb cable or serial

- reboot, try windows xp or win 98

- dont use usb emulator to serial

datalogit says unsuppored

- then its an unsupported PFC for datalogit

- check what ver of datalogit

- try latest datalogit universal

if the hand controller displays zero's everywhere

- the PFC is locked, you need datalogit to unlock it

- the pfc works, its just the tune is displayed as zero's everywhere

the lock is a simple tick box in datalogit, its not a password etc

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