With the basic CarChip, the data logger will store up to 75 hours of trip details before you'll need to download. If you drive, on average, two hours a day, that's over a month's worth of driving data! (When full, CarChip "rolls over" and begins to overwrite the oldest data with the newest.)
You'll get complete trip details including:
- Time and date for each trip
- Distance traveled
- Speed (recorded every 5 seconds)
- Hard brakings and quick accelerations
With CarChip, you can test your vehicle's emission status (or see if the used car will pass the smog test before you buy it!), sort business and personal miles, and calculate gas mileage.
You can view all of this graphically on your computer screen, giving you a moment-by-moment picture of how you—or perhaps your employees or the teenagers in your household—are driving.
If the vehicle's check engine light (also known as a malfunction indicator light or MIL) comes on, you'll be able to:
- Read the diagnostic trouble code (or DTC).
- Get the "freeze-frame" sensor readings telling you the status of various engine parameters at the time.
- Reset the light.
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CarChipE/X includes all the features of CarChip, plus four times the data storage—up to 300 hours of driving data. (The actual number of hours will vary, depending on how frequently you log data. When full, CarChipE/X "rolls over" and begins to overwrite the oldest data with the newest.)
As with CarChip, you'll get time and date for each trip, distance, speed, hard accelerations and breaking, and engine diagnostic trouble codes. CarChipE/X records every second of every trip. You can also test for emissions status - find out the chances of a used car passing the smog test before you buy it! You can also sort business and personal miles, set thresholds for graphs, and calculate gas mileage.
With CarChipE/X you'll also be able to monitor any four out of 23 user-selectable engine parameters, including:
- RPM
- Throttle position
- Engine load
- Fuel pressure
- Fuel system status
- Short- and long-term-fuel trim
- Battery voltage
- Timing advance
- Coolant temperature
- Air flow rate
- Intake air temperature
- Intake manifold pressure
- Oxygen sensor voltage
Plus, if you're unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident, CarChipE/X will automatically generate an accident log showing the last critical 20 seconds of speed. |
CarChipE/X with Alarm ncludes all the features of CarChip, plus four times the data storage—up to 300 hours of driving data. (The actual number of hours will vary, depending on how frequently you log data. When full, CarChipE/X "rolls over" and begins to overwrite the oldest data with the newest.) It also provides user-settable alarms for speed, hard braking, and quick acceleration.
As with CarChip, you'll get time and date for each trip, distance, speed, hard accelerations and decelerations, and engine diagnostic trouble codes. CarChipE/X with Alarm records every second of every trip. You can also test for emissions status - find out if the used car will pass the smog test before you buy it! You can also sort business and personal miles, set thresholds for alarms and graphs, and calculate gas mileage.
With CarChipE/X with Alarm you'll also be able to monitor any four out of 23 user-selectable engine parameters, including:
- RPM
- Throttle position
- Engine load
- Fuel pressure
- Fuel system status
- Short- and long-term-fuel trim
- Battery voltage
- Timing advance
- Coolant temperature
- Air flow rate
- Intake air temperature
- Intake manifold pressure
- Oxygen sensor voltage
Plus, if you're unfortunate enough to be involved in an accident, CarChipE/X will automatically generate an accident log showing the last critical 20 seconds of speed. |
