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Trouble-shooting your TuneEdit installation

If you have problems getting TuneEdit to connect to the ECU on your bike you should follow these steps. Please follow every step in the order shown below. Do not assume that you can skip a step, this needs to be done in the order shown.

The example given is Windows Vista, some screens may look different under Windows XP, Win2K or Win98/ME.

Step 1

Uninstall the TuneBoy software, To do this go to "Control Panel" and select "Programs and Features". Scroll down to "TuneBoy", right click on TuneBoy and select "Uninstall". Follow the prompts to uninstall the software.

Step 2

Uninstall the device drivers for the cable (The cable must be connected to the PC when you do this).

Start Device manager, you can do this through the control panel or by selecting "Start" then "Run" (Windows XP), or by clicking on the Start orb on the bottom left of the screen (Windows Vista), type mmc devmgmt.msc and hit enter, click Continue on the warning prompt and the following screen will be displayed. Click the + next to "Universal Serial Bus controllers" to expand the list of USB devices.

Right click on the "TuneBoy Device" and select "Uninstall", the following screen will be displayed.

Make sure you put a tick in "Delete the driver software for this device" then click the OK button.

Unplug the cable as soon as the device is deleted.

Do not close device manager as it is needed in step 5.

Step 3

Download the latest TuneBoy device drivers from http://www.tuneboy.com.au/Support/TuneBoyDrivers.php. Once they have downloaded you need to unzip the files to your PC, we recommend "C:\TB Drivers" as the location to unzip the drivers to.

Windows Vista can open the zip file and display the contents, to copy this to your PC just select the driver directory and right click, select Copy. Now move to your computers C:, create a new directory called TB Drivers, once inside this directory right click and select paste.

Step 4

Connect the cable to the PC again, the following screen will be displayed.

Click on "Locate and install the driver software" and click Continue on the warning message that follows. After a minute of two the following screen will be displayed:

Click on the "I don\'t have the disc, Show me other options" and then the following screen will be displayed:

Click on "Browse my computer for driver software".

Click the "Browse" button and select the location where you unzipped the drivers, if you used the name we recommended your screen should look like the one above, now click Next.

The following warning will be displayed:

Click "Install this driver software anyway".

The drivers for the cable have now been installed, click Close.

Step 5

Switch back to device manager and right click on the "TuneBoy Device" again, this time select "Properties", the following screen will be displayed:

Now select the "Advanced tab", the following screen will be displayed.

If you do not have the Advanced tab you should follow this link to force the correct drivers to load.

Put a tick in the "Load VCP" box then click the OK button.

Unplug the cable and plug it back in again. You will again be prompted to install device drivers, proceed as before (See Step 4).

Step 6

In device manager you should now expand the "Ports (COM & LPT)", in this you will see "TuneBoy Device(COMn)"

Right click on this and select "Properties", select the "Port settings" tab, this should look like the following.

Click on the "Advanced..." button, the following screen will be displayed.

Change the "Latency Timer (msec)" to 1, your screen should now look like the one above.

Click the OK button to save the setting and the OK button on the next screen to close the properties window.

Step 7

Download the registry clean program here: http://www.tuneboy.com.au/Tutorials/TuneBoyRegClean.php. Run the program in the zip and click the "Clear TuneBoy Registry settings" button, this will delete any tuneboy settings from your registry.

Step 8

If you already have the TuneBoy software installed you should uninstall it with "Add remove programs" (Windows XP) or "Programs and settings" (Windows Vista), this you will find in the control panel.

Step 9

Download the latest TuneBoy setup program here: http://www.tuneboy.com.au/Support/TuneBoy_V3.7.2_Setup.exe. Once the file is downloaded you should run this setup program. Follow the prompts, this will install TuneBoy V3.7.2 on your PC, it will also install all the latest tunes in the "TuneBoy Tunes" folder on the desktop. Don\'t select the "Launch TuneBoy" option at the end of the install.

Once the install is complete you will have a folder "TuneBoy Tunes" on your desktop, open this folder then open the folder for your brand and model of bike. As an example if you have an Aprilia RXV 550 you would now see a screen like this:

Double click on the tune for your bike, for example the "25016Tune.dat" file. You will now see a screen like the following:

Click on the "Options" menu and select "Properties" the following screen will be displayed:

In the "Serial Port" box you should click the arrow at the end and select the "TuneBoy Device(COMn)".

If you are connecting to a KTM you need to have the tick in "Precision Timer", if not you should remove the tick as it is not required for other models and can cause problems on some PC\'s.

Click the Save button then close TuneEdit down.

Step 10

Switch back to device manager and right click on the "TuneBoy Device" again, this time select "Properties", the following screen will be displayed:

Now select the "Advanced tab", the following screen will be displayed:

Remove the tick from the "Load VCP" box then click OK.

Unplug the cable and then plug it back in again. You can now close device manager.

Step 11

Close the TuneEdit program now and double click on the TuneEdit icon on your desktop.

Connect the other end of the cable to the bike, If this is an Aprilia RXV or SXV make sure the earth clip on the cable is connected to a good metal part on the bike, if this clip is not connected the program will not communicate with the bike.

Turn the ignition on and make sure the kill switch is in the run position.

The LED on the cable will blink a few times and the following popup will be displayed.

Cut and paste this into an email and send it to support@tuneboy.com.au along with your details, please use the same email address you used for the purchase so we can find your records in our database.

If you purchased the product from another web site you should contact them for the software key.

Step 12

If you ever have a download fail before it is complete you should close TuneEdit down, start it again, turn the bike off and on then select the "Tools" menu and the "Recover from failed download" option. This will bring the ECU back to a state where a normal download can be done.

The recovery download does not send any changes you have made to the map, you need to do a normal download once the recovery is complete.

If you have any problems getting the program to connect you should do a screen print of the error and email the screen print and the TuneEdit.trc file to support@tuneboy.com.au.

The TuneEdit.trc file can be found on your desktop.

The TuneEdit.trc file is replaced every time you start TuneEdit so it is important that you close TuneEdit after the problem and email this file before you start TuneEdit again, otherwise the trace file will have been replaced and no longer contain the information about the error.

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Using the TuneBoy Program

TuneBoy Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that you have completed the Getting Started tutorial and have the TuneBoy and TuneEdit programs installed and communicating with the bike.

The TuneBoy program provides the diagnostic functions that the official dealer tools provide. Below we will provide a quick run down of some of the more important functions the TuneBoy program provides, for more details you should read the documentation.

Throttle position reset:

The Set Throttle Shuttoff Position button will send a command to the ECU to tell it a new value for the closed throttle position. The value that it sends is a high value.

The next time that the bike is started and left to idle (for around 10 seconds) the ECU will see that the value for closed throttle is higher than the current throttle position, this will cause the ECU to store the current throttle position as the new closed throttle position, thus setting the correct closed throttle position.

Don\'t adjust the Closed Throttle Position Trim unless the corrected throttle position shows other than zero (when the throttle is closed) after using the method outlined above.

Idle fuel trim (also shown in the picture above) is a very important adjustment for all bikes that do not have an O2 sensor. This adjustment being incorrectly set is the cause of most of the surge problems at low revs.

I suggest that you set this value by "seat of the pants" testing:

  1. Take note of the current value so that you can set it back to the starting point if you do not like the results.
  2. Start and warm up the bike. Then adjust the value until the throttle response feels crisp, I find that a value around +5% to +10% is a good starting point.
  3. Ride the bike, adjust up or down by 2% and ride it again. When you feel that the bike feels it\'s best stop adjusting.

I know it sounds simple but it works.

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Loading your first tune with TuneEdit

Initial TuneBoy Setup

This tutorial assumes that you have completed the Getting Started tutorial and have the TuneBoy and TuneEdit programs installed and communicating with the bike.

Download the tune that you want to load, place it in the TuneBoy directory. By default this is

c:\program files\aura computer software\tuneboy

Now start TuneEdit and click on the File menu and select Open Tune File as shown below.

This will then popup the Open Tune box. If you single click on a tune file you will see the notes from that tune at the bottom of the popup box. Once you find the tune you want just click the Open button.

This will have loaded the tune into TuneEdit and the Download button should be yellow (this indicates that TuneEdit is ready to do a download).

Now make sure that the bike is connected with the TuneBoy cable and that the ignition is on, then click the Download button to start the download.

Once the download is started you should see a download in progress message at the bottom of the screen, the progress bar will also start to fill in as shown in this next screen shot:

When the progress bar reaches the end you will hear the fuel pump on the bike prime and the download complete message box will be displayed:

That is all there is to it. To revert back to your standard tune just repeat the process using the standard tune file, these can be found on this page and on the T595.net web site.

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Changing the Air/Fuel targets in your tune

Initial TuneBoy Setup

This tutorial assumes that you have completed the Getting Started tutorial and have the TuneBoy and TuneEdit programs installed and communicating with the bike.

The Air/Fuel table in the Sagem ECU tells the ECU the proportions it should use when calculating how much fuel to add to the air that the motor is breathing in.

Best power will be achieved with an Air/Fuel ratio of around 12.8/1.

As you can see from the following screen shot the standard maps use Air/Fuel ratios that are much leaner than 12.8/1, this is done for emission reasons and ride by noise tests:

When a tuning shop fits a PowerCommander or other fuel modifier to a bike, they will try and adjust the fueling to 13/1 using an exhaust gas probe. The result is that you have the ECU trying to get one thing and the fuel modifier adjusting to get another. This results in a system that does not adjust very well to altitude changes and air temp changes.

By adjusting the Air/Fuel targets that the ECU uses we can get the 12.8/1 required for best power without spending hours on a dyno, and will have a system that works well under all conditions.

I would suggest using a map like the following, this ranges from 12.8 at high throttle up to 13.5 at low throttle.

Once you have made the changes you should save the tune with a new file name, then download it to the bike.

If you want to go back you can download the original file.

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Using TuneEdit on a Dyno

A lot of people have asked how to go about getting the most out of their bike. While you can tune your bike on the road it is much easier to do the tuning on a dyno. The info on this page gives a step by step example of this process.

The bike used in this example is a 1999 955i Daytona with a BlackWidow exhaust, the exhaust is the only modification to the bike. The bike had the Triumph sports pipe tune loaded.

Firstly, you must do a base run. (I like to do several runs to blow the "cobwebs" out.) It would not be fair to use the first run as a base because this is often down on power. The bike in this example only put out 94hp (and a cloud of smoke from the carbon build up) on the first run. The second run made 103, the third 104.

The owner of this bike complained that it had a flat spot about 3500RPM. The bike is a 1999 955i with a Black Widow pipe and perhaps a K&N air filter (not 100% sure about that.) The data here is arranged in table format to make it easy to follow. Each run is at least two runs because the first run is needed to bring everything up to a good running temperature without overheating the airbox.

The graphs show HP and Air/Fuel ratio. You need to remember that the Air/Fuel line on the graph will not be at the correct RPM because it takes time for the gas to reach the probe. I have found that a difference of 500 - 1000 RPM is close to the mark (more on this below.)

This first graph below shows horsepower with the standard Triumph sports map. The dip in power is very obvious. From the graph it appears to be very lean in this area. (The reason this graph looks like it has been touched up is because I didn\'t have a graph with just run #3 on it so I have erased the other run on this graph.):

Because of the severity of the power drop I decided to have a look at the map values rather than just use the percentage trim maps. This image below shows how the numbers in the map drop by 33% at 2750 and 3000 RPM:

This dip can also be seen in this 3DGraph below, where the red line runs through this dip:

This shows the changes I made to the map. All I have done is take out the dip by bringing the numbers up to a value that gives a smooth transition between the numbers either side:

At the same time I added these trims to the fuel % trim table to try and lean out the rich condition up top. You can see that I don\'t just trim the top row. This is because the trims that apply at full throttle will also apply at the throttle points just below full throttle, likewise when I trim the 50% area I also trim above and below that point:

The result (run #5) shows that the dip in power has been removed and power at the top end has also increased:

From this point on I use the fuel % trim table for all changes. This screen shot shows the changes made after looking at dyno run #5. If you look at the previous graph you will see a lean spike that appears at 3000 RPM on the graph. Because of the lag in the exhaust gas sensor, you need to look at the power graph to find a corresponding point where there is a dip in the power. (This is where the lean condition actually exists.) In this case you can see that power fell a little at the 2500RPM mark and for this reason I have added a 6% trim in the 2500RPM area in the trim map. I also increased the trim between 4500RPM to 6500RPM and added trims at 3500RPM and 4000RPM to try and bring the exhaust gas readings down toward the 13/1 area:

Run #7 shows that the power has increased at 2500RPM and in the 3500-4000RPM area. The air/fuel graph is now starting to look much better, as is the power graph:

The top end of the graph is a little lean at 8000-8500RPM and a little rich at 9000-10750RPM. This screen shot shows the changes I made to try and fix this. I also increased the trim at 2500 and took a little fuel out at the very bottom of the map:

Run #10 shows that the resulting power was increased again at 2250-2500RPM and in the 8000 to redline area:

This graph shows the final result (run #24) along with the starting point with the standard Triumph high pipe map (see Run #3.) As you can see, at this point I am up to dyno run #24 - most of the dyno runs from 10 onward have been used to clean up the part throttle portions of the map. The procedure for this is the same as the full throttle tuning except you only use part throttle during the run. I do these at 25% and 50% throttle:

This shows the same data as above but displays HP and Torque instead of HP and Air/Fuel ratio:

As you can see from the final graph this bike is now running much better and the annoying dip in the power curve is gone forever.

If you have any questions about the methods shown here please feel free to email me.

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Download the latest TuneBoy and TuneEdit programs

This page allows you to download the latest version of the TuneBoy software. This is a free update so your existing keys will work with this version.

The documentation is included in the install program:

TuneBoy - New Features:
TuneEdit - New Features:
What do I need to do?

Download the V3.9.9 Install and extract the files to your temp directory.

Make sure you copy any tunes you have to a backup location. (We suggest this just in case the install replaces the files with newer copies.)

You should now uninstall the old version of TuneBoy. This is very important because the install sometimes has trouble replacing some of the DLL\'s and this can cause problems with the TuneBoy program.

Now run the Setup and follow the steps to install the program.

That\'s it! All registry settings should still be saved and the program should have not problem connecting to the bike.

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