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It has three main functions - an OBD II scanner, realtime gauges, and a trip computer. The ScanGauge II plugs in to your car's OBD complaint (On Board Diagnostics) II port, It's quite tidy in size and has five buttons and an LCD display on the front and two RJ-45 style jacks - one on the side and one on the back so you get some choice of cable location. It comes with a connector cable, a small handbook and two pieces of self-adhesive velcro for mounting somewhere around the dash of your car. Once plugged in, it gets all the power from the +12v feed in the OBD II port so there is no need for a separate external power cord, which is nice - a single-cable design is much better than having multiple cables to try to hide away.
When first plugged in, the ScanGauge II takes a moment to connect to your car's computer, during which time it displays a Connecting... message. Once connected, it defaults to the home screen, which you can return to at any point be pressing the red-ringed button on the front.
By being attached to your OBD II port, the scangauge can read a constant flow of data which is available to the engine management system, and present it to you on the screen. The list of standard items it can display is very comprehensive, and includes gas mileage, speed, engine rpm, throttle position, closed/open loop emissions control, voltage, air intake temperature, coolant temperature, engine load, intake manifold pressure to name just a few. Each item can be displayed in metric or imperial (depending on how you set it up initially) and in addition to the stock items, it has the ability to be programmed to pull other information off the OBD II port, operating in a mode called X-Gauge. This is a bit more geeky - you need to know four values - the TXD, RXD, RXF and MATH codes for a particular item. If you have that information to hand, you can tell the ScanGauge to submit that query code to the OBD II system and then listen for a response. For example, by default it does not show instantaneuous horsepower. Programming the correct codes in to one of the 24 programmable X-Gauge readings will return horsepower to that value and allow you to display it on-screen as a selectable gauge. Clever. Better still, Linear Logic maintain a constantly updated list of XGauge commands that you can refer to if you decide to get into adding new readouts.
In Gauge mode, the ScanGauge II shows four user-definable values on the screen at once. Pressing the button next to any of these items cycles them through the available items to view. If you select one and it doesn't give a reading (for example you just see 'VLT' instead of +12.6v) then it means the selection is not something your particular vehicle is transmitting on the OBD II port. The refresh rate for these values can be set in the setup menus, from normal to slow to fast. The correlation between the ScanGauge and the Honda for both speedometer and tachometer proved to be bang on. The photo below shows the rpm reading at idle with the device held in front of the car's own tachometer.
The trip computer mode is an interesting addition with this device especially for those of us who don't have rocket-science on-board computers in our cars (ie. normal cars, not roadgoing luxury yachts). Whilst it can't be 100% accurate because it has no direct knowledge of your fuel load, it's pretty damned close. Basically, each time you fill up, you go through one level of setup menu to the Fill Up option. The ScanGauge then assumes you have a tank containing the amount of fuel you indicated during initial setup - in my case 16 gallons. Because it can read gas-mileage and speed from the OBD II port, and because it has an internal clock, the device can then determine your estimated range-to-empty, the cost per mile and a whole host of other trip computer functions. As well as instantaneous readouts, it can show you overall averages, moving averages, and previous day or trip averages too. Whilst none of this will be news to anyone who's driving around in the aforementioned luxury yachts, the ScanGauge II does give the rest of us a lot more functionality than we have in our standard vehicles.
Scan mode is handy for some self-diagnosis of your vehicle. Most usefully, it will show you the 5-character error code(s) associated with a check engine light. From there it's up to you to sleuth out on the internet forums what a particular code means in relation to your exact vehicle.
It can pull these codes out of the OBD II system one at a time, and then if you choose, clear them. Clearing these codes in most cases causes the check engine light to turn off, but be aware that if you clear out non-trivial stuff, then any place you take the car for service isn't going to be able to see the history of stored codes. So this is a double-edged sword. For example if you're seeing a code for a faulty reading on an engine knock sensor and you clear it, whilst you know that error code existed, the next time your vehicle is serviced, the garage won't pick up on it (unless it happens again after you've reset the history). From that point of view, it's nice to be able to turn off the check engine light, but at the same time, if you don't know what you're doing it could lead to trouble.
Having said that, this can also be useful for determining whether there is any issue with your engine that is likely to flag an expensive repair next time around. A lot of the time, the diagnostic system will store away relatively trivial codes that do not cause a check engine light, but that will alert a technician next time they plug your car in during a service. For example a history of intermittent coolant overheating codes could point to a thermostat on the way out.