Link G4 Plus Software Tutorial: Customising PC Link
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Customising PC Link
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| 00:00 | - The PC Link software comes with a default configuration that is probably suitable for most users. |
| 00:06 | As you get familiar with the software you may find that you want to change the software layout to suit your own preferences or set up a new page to help with a particular tuning job. |
| 00:15 | Let's have a look at how we can change the configuration. |
| 00:19 | First let's start with a default layout and we can change a few parameters around. |
| 00:24 | You can see in the top right corner of each element on the page there's a little red X. |
| 00:28 | This means the element is locked and can't be changed. |
| 00:32 | If we want to alter an existing element, we need to first click on the X. |
| 00:36 | Once we've done this, we can resize the element or move it around the screen. |
| 00:40 | Let's start by moving and expanding some of the elements out to make more use of our desktop. |
| 00:46 | Once the elements are unlocked, we can resize them by grabbing a corner, holding down the left mouse button and dragging the window. |
| 00:53 | We can also move the elements around by grabbing the top bar and holding the left mouse button down before dragging around the screen. |
| 01:01 | Let's move the current windows around now so you can see how it is done. |
| 01:05 | We now have a layout that is easy to view and makes better use of the size of our laptop screen which will make tuning easier. |
| 01:16 | Let's look at the default gauge display at the bottom of the screen and make some changes to it. |
| 01:21 | By default this gauge is set up to show the input from a wideband controlled when displaying the fuel table and the ignition advance when displaying the ignition tables. |
| 01:30 | Let's say we wanted to display engine RPM instead. |
| 01:33 | First up we need to unlock the element by clicking on the red cross so we can edit it. |
| 01:38 | Next we can right click while the cursor is over the gauge and a menu will pop up. |
| 01:43 | We want to click on properties and this will allow us to control what the gauge displays. |
| 01:48 | You can see that we have two tabs here, one labelled parameters and another labelled table groups. |
| 01:55 | We can use the table groups to display different parameters on the gauge depending on what table we're viewing. |
| 02:01 | With a default gauge, we have three table groups configured. |
| 02:04 | These are always visible, ignition table one, and ignition table two. |
| 02:11 | By clicking each of these we can see what parameter will be displayed in the box below. |
| 02:16 | We're going to change this wideband gauge to display RPM regardless which tables we're viewing. |
| 02:22 | First we're going to delete the additional table groups by clicking on ignition one and pressing the delete button and doing the same for ignition two. |
| 02:30 | We now only have the always visible group showing. |
| 02:34 | Now we need to delete lambda one the same way by clicking on it and pressing delete. |
| 02:39 | At this point our gauge has nothing to display so we can add in RPM. |
| 02:44 | In the parameters list on the left, we want to double click on the triggers folder. |
| 02:49 | You can now see we have the option of engine speed. |
| 02:52 | We can either double click on it or click once to highlight it and click on the transfer button here. |
| 02:59 | Clicking OK will now lock in this change and you can see the gauge now shows RPM. |
| 03:05 | If we go back one step and go back into the gauge properties you can see that we have a tab labelled gauge setup. |
| 03:11 | Clicking this tab will let us alter the way the gauge is displayed. |
| 03:15 | By default the gauge uses automatic settings. |
| 03:18 | If we click on the manual button we can change the parameters to suit. |
| 03:22 | Let's change the RPM gauge to display all the way through to 12,000 RPM. |
| 03:28 | At the same time we'll change the red line to 10,000 RPM and the yellow line to 9000 RPM. |
| 03:35 | We can also change the number of divisions to 12 so we have a marker every 1000 RPM. |
| 03:40 | For simplicity we will also change the multiplier to 100. |
| 03:44 | Again we can lock in these changes by pressing OK and you can see the changes we've made. |
| 03:50 | Let's see how we could add a bar graph to give us a visual display of battery voltage. |
| 03:55 | This time we'll add a new element rather than editing one. |
| 03:59 | Start by right clicking on the screen and selecting new view and then bar gauge. |
| 04:04 | We want to display this element regardless of what table we're viewing so we can leave the element as always visible. |
| 04:11 | If we click on the analog input folder and search through we see the option battery voltage. |
| 04:17 | Double clicking on it will transfer it into the visible parameters window. |
| 04:22 | Now we can click on the gauge setup tab and customise the bar graph a little. |
| 04:26 | We start by clicking on manual and we can choose the minimum and maximum values. |
| 04:31 | In this case I'm going to leave the minimum at six volts but I'm going to change the maximum to 16 volts. |
| 04:37 | I'm going to change the large divisions to five which will give us a division every two volts. |
| 04:43 | Lastly I'm going to set a yellow line at 14.5 volts and a red line at 15 volts for a warning. |
| 04:48 | Clicking OK will lock in the changes and we can view them on the screen. |
| 04:54 | Before we finish we can move the new gauge where we want it on the screen. |
| 04:59 | The last job is to lock the gauge by clicking on the green cross hair. |
| 05:03 | Any changes you make to the layout will be saved automatically as the default layout when you close PC Link. |
| 05:09 | If you've spent a lot of time changing things to suit, make sure you save your layout by going to the layout, save as drop down menu and give your layout a name. |
| 05:19 | If you don't do this and you update to a new version of PC Link, you will lose your custom layout. |
