08-19-2022, 04:38 PM
Friday
The research on the interweb says that many times a reflash of the faulty computer will restore it’s brains. Here is where it gets murky. Apparently, you can program a DDEC IV with the parameters used for the DDEC III, if you work with Detroit Diesel to make the change in their master data base. But once the change is made, they will not go back and allow you to program a DDEC III for that engine. This complicates the day since the only order that will work is reflash the existing DDEC III, wait for DD to change the master data base, then flash the IV.
Long story, only the DDEC III is available by 3 pm, and the shop says no way the IV will be ready before Monday.
So we drive 180 miles back to the coach to see if the reflashed DDEC III will crank. It will not.
We spend the night in a motel in Salina UT, closest town, only 25 miles away.
I start to think about getting a tow the next morning to get the coach off the road.
The research on the interweb says that many times a reflash of the faulty computer will restore it’s brains. Here is where it gets murky. Apparently, you can program a DDEC IV with the parameters used for the DDEC III, if you work with Detroit Diesel to make the change in their master data base. But once the change is made, they will not go back and allow you to program a DDEC III for that engine. This complicates the day since the only order that will work is reflash the existing DDEC III, wait for DD to change the master data base, then flash the IV.
Long story, only the DDEC III is available by 3 pm, and the shop says no way the IV will be ready before Monday.
So we drive 180 miles back to the coach to see if the reflashed DDEC III will crank. It will not.
We spend the night in a motel in Salina UT, closest town, only 25 miles away.
I start to think about getting a tow the next morning to get the coach off the road.
Richard and Rhonda Entrekin
99 Newell, 512
Maverick Hybrid Toad
Inverness, FL (when we're home
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