Why different table sizes?
 

16x16 Fuel Tables
12x12 Ign Tables
8x8 VVT Tables
12x12 Target AFR Tables

Having never owned a MSx ecu this is one of my major complaints, the limited table sizes. What is the limiting factor that makes the MSx unable to use a 16x16 (or larger) for every table?

MS3 has 16x16 fuel & ignition tables, the rest are 12x12 tertiary stuff, (WI map etc), is smaller still.

The reason is space limitations, particularly on MS1 and MS2 there is a premium on the amount of flash space available.

Is the table size really limited though? particularly on our implementation? Bigger tables are just a bigger ball ache to tune, and as all the numbers are interpolated, and you can set the break points wherever you like there isn't really much need for bigger tables unless you're revving extremely high and have very very high boost figures.

Even then with blended tables you can have a much larger table for those applications.

What makes you think bigger tables will make the car run better?
Having tuned tables larger than 16x16 I'm dying to hear what's so desirable about it aside from being a pain in the butt to tune.

the table sizes arent limiting.

I was going off of the information provided by 949 on the table size.

http://949racing.com/megasquirt-miata-PNP3.aspx

According to MSLabs their MS3 does have 16x16 available on most tables.

The reason for wanting higher resolution tuning maps is obvious, if it's adequate for what you guys are doing that's great...

While it may seem obvious in the abstract sense, I can't say that I've ever encountered a situation in which I actually took advantage of the extra resolution of a 16x16 map (as opposed to an 8x8 or 12x12) in any meaningful way.

I'd be curious as to what sort of engines you've been dealing with wherein you find yourself needing to enter steeply nonlinear series of values in adjacent cells of your fuel and ignition tables. This is not a common scenario, to say the very least.

You can search on the MSExtra forums about table size. Both the developers that write the code for MS have commented on it several times and why they have chosen the sizes they did. Realistically it comes down to the added resolution is just not needed.

What they said: There are enough transient compensations and other gizmo's that 16x16 is more than adequate. In fact, for most tables you don't even need 16x16. Or even 12x12.

I tried a 250rpm step size with an adaptronic and it was pretty pointless and stupid, and the car didn't run any better at all, but took way longer to tune

my favorite part of adaptronic was having to scroll to view your fuel table. lol.

working a 32x32 table in hydra 2.6 was worse. With the you know, not being able to click on a cell and having to use the arrow keys to navigate to it from the bottom left cell every time I did try to click on a cell. The EMS4 has some wonky like 24x17 table for fuel and spark or some other bullshit like that which is a super bizarro size. And a lot of the breakpoints transfer between tables oddly so I end up having a few fuel rpm columns at the top of the fuel map that are past redline just to trick the ecu into giving me the rpm columns I want on other tables like boost targets. But 16x16 is normally sufficient, 24x24 is probably really the perfect sweet spot, but more so you could rev as high as I do while having basically linear rpm breakpoints.

Yeah, the 2.5/2.6 software UI is craptastic. Supposedly the 2.7 one is better, but I haven't used it. "Software written by hardware engineers" is how I describe it.

One of the nicer things about switching to the MS3 is that Tuner Studio isn't (AFAIK) written by the same guys who build/design the hardware. This means that it actually needs to not suck. :)

That said, big tables are less annoying in fuel than they are in spark, because fuel can be effectively autotuned.

--Ian

you can use tableswitch to create a 32x32 table for fuel in megasquirt. I think. If you're insane.

i just want a 32x16 table.

10-202kPa in 6 kPa incremental rows.

because fuck interpolation. :bang:

Ive gotten a turbo map from someone using ms3 while im on ms2. It dispays it as a 16x16 table.the car runs but i wonder how the ms2 uses the 16x16 table.
does it inerpolate that map into a 12x12 table because my ms shouldnt be able to handle a 16x16 ignition table

:laugh: