Aim MXL2, User Manual

Page 1: ...MXL2 Dash Logger USER GUIDE 1 02...

Page 2: ...E WLAN SETUP 10 4 ABOUT INTERNET CONNECTIVITY 10 5 WORKING WITH MAC TM OS AND VIRTUALIZED WINDOWS TM 11 RACESTUDIO3 SOFTWARE 11 1 CONFIGURATION 11 1 1 CHANNELS CONFIGURATION 11 1 2 ECU STREAM CONFIGUR...

Page 3: ...splay advanced expansions and sampling capabilities gives you the flexibility for reviewing your data in your preferred way and recording them from a variety of sensors and sources Please before diggi...

Page 4: ...eases of RaceStudio2 can detect XRK files and transform them into old DRK files that are compatible with MXL1 and EVO4 files Datacomefromawiderangeofsources including your vehicle ECU the internal acc...

Page 5: ...future AiM systems It is going to substitute Race Studio 2 which has accompanied us for almost 15 years Based on a totally new and much more flexible architecture it is a work in progress as some feat...

Page 6: ...CHAPTER 2 06 Harness 2 What is in the kit MXL2 dash logger The MXL2 kit includes GPS08 Module Software...

Page 7: ...WHAT IS IN THE KIT MXL2...

Page 8: ...CHAPTER 3 08 Configurable Alarm LEDs 1 3 Configurable Alarm LEDs 4 6 Shift Lights MXL2 Dash Logger Multifunctional Pushbuttons...

Page 9: ...09 Motorsport Connectors Aluminum Body LAYOUT AND PUSHBUTTONS MXL2...

Page 10: ...ital inputs ECU values ex pansion values GPS information or math channels You can associate an alarm LED a message and a digital output with each event RPM value that turns it on and the colour You ca...

Page 11: ...e set when configuring your system with RS3 configuration soft ware The steps are explained in the related section 5 ECU connection The system can acquire data from the ECU of your vehicle The list of...

Page 12: ...150 400 V In case your engine is not managed by any ECU the device can read the signal from the low voltage of the coil whose peak can be from 150 to 400V or from a possible square wave the peak can...

Page 13: ...1 low voltage of the coil Point 2 connected to the spark plug Point 3 connected to the 12V of the battery After connecting the RPM signal please use the software Race Studio 3 for enabling the RPM ch...

Page 14: ...iver included in the kit n from the wheel sensors digital channels It is therefore possible to receive and store different values of speed at the same time the more powerful ECUs transmit up to four w...

Page 15: ...pressure sensors n thermo resistances n K type thermocouples Please follow these steps using the software RaceStudio3 to set the channels n connect the sensor to the desired input n enable the channel...

Page 16: ...gital inputs on the 22 pins connector Each of them can give an output of 1 amp at 12 volts 9 Digital outputs Connecting examples The digital output Dout is a LOW SIDE type with internal 10 Kohm weak p...

Page 17: ...or math channels To each event you can associate an alarm LED a message and a digital output You can configure it in order to turn them off when the condition disappears when you turn the system off...

Page 18: ...i is on and goes OFF as the vehicle speed increases Your system can be configured for WiFi commu nication in one of two ways 1 As an Access Point AP This is ideal when you have one device and one comp...

Page 19: ...AiM devices but can only communicate with AiM devices for which it has the password 2 To join an existing Wireless Local Area Network WLAN This is more complex and requires an external AP but is more...

Page 20: ...only one device using one PC By default AiM system is configured as an Access Point and creates a network without a password completely accessible to eve ryone So for establishing the WiFi connection...

Page 21: ...ation will be established For setting other parameters it is therefore recommended that you create a unique password to secure your device network immediately With the use of a password the communicat...

Page 22: ...nd a friendly name to the SSID There is a limit of eight characters For example if you add the driver s name Tom Wolf the resulting network name SSID will be AiM MXL2 01040 TomWolf After having set al...

Page 23: ...WIFI CONFIGURATION 23 MXL2 Please note that it is also possible to make the same WiFi connection using the WiFi tools of your operating system...

Page 24: ...24 CHAPTER 10 Once theWiFi authentication with the device has been established users can interact with the device clicking on it...

Page 25: ...SB simply click on your device in the left panel under Connec ted Devices 10 2 Joining Your AiM system to an existing network Go to theWiFi configuration tab and set the mode to Existing Network Then...

Page 26: ...used as clarified in the following figure As you can see in the picture above one device called MXL2 ID 5000999 is switched from AP mode to WLAN mode The network name is network_1 and it is not workin...

Page 27: ...uthenticated to the same network as clarified in the following figure Once the user s PC is authenticated to the same network called network_1 it can see the AiM device previously configured to gain a...

Page 28: ...0 device as the network device in order to provide a WLAN However you can use any other network device that has at least both one 3x3 MIMO and one DHCP server Moreover in order to maximize the bandwid...

Page 29: ...168 0 3 to 192 168 0 31 These settings enable a DHCP server running on this WLAN It gives IP addresses belonging to the range 3 31 Hence 29 network hosts are permitted on this network The number of n...

Page 30: ...w internet access on the same network as your AiM device s but doing so can degrade the performance of AiM device communication These slightly slower network speeds may be suitable for your needs Also...

Page 31: ...ase is that the host OS Mac shares the WiFi interface with the virtualized OS Windows not as a WiFi interface but as an Ethernet interface Configuring Parallels Choose Configure option in Parallels Me...

Page 32: ...mmunication is working choose the Open Network Preferences menu In the window you are prompted verify that the status is shown as Connected and that the given IP is for example 10 0 0 10 it could be 1...

Page 33: ...WIFI CONFIGURATION 33 MXL2 In RaceStudio3 flag the checkbox you find in Preferences WiFi Settings...

Page 34: ...re and fixing download settings Custom sensors Creates imports exports and modifies custom sensors Configurations Create modify delete export and import configuration with all channels ECU drivers Mat...

Page 35: ...r to bet ter organize your configurations Simply push the setting icon in order to create a new one When you connect an AiM logger its serial number appears in the left side of your screen In the righ...

Page 36: ...ls tab n Channels n ECU Stream n CAN2 Stream n Math channels n Parameters n Shift Lights and alarms Display n SmartyCam Stream n CAN Expansions n CAN Output 11 1 1 Channels Configuration Channels conf...

Page 37: ...e measure unit 11 1 2 ECU Stream configuration Push ECU Stream tab Here you set the ECU driver as well as ena ble or disable the data coming from your ECU To set the ECU driver of your vehicle click C...

Page 38: ...8 11 1 3 CAN2 Stream Push the tab CAN2 Stream CAN2 Stream works like ECU Stream and is normally used for non engine control units like for example ABS management suspen sion kits or similar CHAPTER 11...

Page 39: ...hannel you can calculate the engaged gear both with a learning lap calculated gear and filling in the RPM values precalculated gear You can as well configure Bias channels and add linear corrector cha...

Page 40: ...GPS or using optical transmitter receiver GPS beacon requires the track width while optical beacon requires you to insert a time during which the system does not record additional lap signals 2 Start...

Page 41: ...hen water temperature is higher than 90 C and RPM value is higher than 6000 LED1 starts blinking continuously with a red light a text message Water on a red background is shown on the display and the...

Page 42: ...the LED on until another LED with higher threshold is turned on You can select the Engine RPM channel to be used typically between engine RPM and Analog digital ECU RPM If LEDs are managed in dependen...

Page 43: ...oceed If shift lights depend upon the gear num ber use the arrows left of the summary bar to show set values of each gear In the example you are showing shift lights values set for gear 4 To change al...

Page 44: ...t fields selecting the proper information to be shown the para meters labels and the unit of measure Please use the lower left part of the display for configuring each channel You can define n the cha...

Page 45: ...alog digital internal channel expansions ECU or GPS Module WARNING Please be advised that this function allows you to send messages directly to your vehicle CAN network Sending messages that can poten...

Page 46: ...top left of RaceStudio3 page just under the pushbuttons All configurations are shown on the right part of the page For modifying an existing configu ration right click on it and select the desired opt...

Page 47: ...ft side of the PC display the name of your device appears as shown in the picture At this point you can transmit the configu ration or clicking on the configuration n see live measures n calibrate sen...

Page 48: ...the system connected click on it to enter Live Measures Push Start Live Measures to look the data coming from your system You can change the measure unit double clicking on the measure From Live Meas...

Page 49: ...k on your system name in Connected Devices panel bot tom left of the software main page The device window appears on the right Push Download button for downloading the data You will see the informatio...

Page 50: ...acks you are going to run on Opening the software with no logger connected to your PC you will see the screen shown here on the right As you can see the screen is divided in three parts On the left ar...

Page 51: ...GPS AND TRACK MANAGEMENT 51 MXL2 1 2 3 4 8 7 5 6...

Page 52: ...anual Collections 3 1 Nations Select a Nation and you will see only the tracks belonging to that Country 2 Smart collections To create a Smart Collection of tracks click the setting Icon highlighted t...

Page 53: ...lick on the setting Icon fill in the Collection name and click OK The new collection appears in the Manual Collections list Drag and drop the tracks you want to insert in the collection from the centr...

Page 54: ...abel mousing over it Select Edit to modify all track information 12 4 How to delete a track from the PC database The tracks you find in the software by default and provided by AiM cannot be deleted To...

Page 55: ...ND TRACK MANAGEMENT 55 MXL2 12 5 How to transmit track information to the system To transmit track information to your system select the tracks you want to load and click Transmit on the software keyb...

Page 56: ...us sessions of the same day or before just clicking VIEW QUIT 14 Expansions Using our built in CAN bus you can add expansion modules like GPS channel expansions lambda controllers These are only some...

Page 57: ...22 Digital output 2 RS232TX ECU RS232RX ECU PIN 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Deutsch 37pin 9 15V Power Input Battery GND CAN Exp GND Vbattery CAN CAN Exp Vbext CAN1 ECU CAN...

Page 58: ...Waterproof LCD Display graphical portion White or red Yes 6 RGB freely configurable 10 integrated freely configurable RGB LEDs 3 CAN RS232 K Line GPS Module Channel Expansion Lambda controller Smarty...

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