joamanya said:
And as we understand, the programables work with the KT LCD3,
It's much much more complicated than that.
There's a whole world of motor controllers that's been developing for years, so there's many many kinds and ways of doing things, many still in use.
Programmables fall into many different categories. Only the KT controllers work with the KT LCD3, and only specific KT controllers. Not all KT controllers are programmable, and even the ones that are don't all work with the LCD3 (or other LCDs). Probably depends on when they were made, as well as who they were made for.
There are many manufacturers, and they each have their own way of doing things, their own communications protocols, etc.
Then there are OEMs, who build bikes and/or kits or systems, and they may custom-order stuff from controller manufacturers with completley different setups than what you would normally see. Sometimes those systems don't get used and get sold by other vendors as individual parts, and they're not necessarily compatible with the other stuff made by the same manufacturer.
There are also controllers that have LCD or LED (or other) displays that are not programmable at all, either via the display or via serial connection, etc.
There are also controllers that are programmable, but have no display of any kind. Generally these require a serial connection to a computer of some type. Some of these are only programmable at the factory, and some of them can be done by the user, mostly because the software for the computer end of things is not generally publicly available, but sometimes leaks out, or someone develops something that works on certain controllers (like Anpaza's XPD here on ES).
Then you said, that we can also connect the CA by a SA Shunt to the programable controllers, and also if I didn't got you wrong, there is a chance to also have the CA "limiting" the programable controller.
Couple of questions here:
1)When you say limiting, it is the CA doing the C and P parameters configuration?
No. The CA does NOT communicate in any way with the controllers. It can't, because there are many many ways controllers do that.
See the http://ebikes.ca product page for the Cycle Analyst for how it does what it does, including connection diagrams, wiring, setup, etc. It's all there, but you have to go read it.
2)Is there any configuration where the CA works alone with the programable controller and don't need the LCD3 to turn on bike or any other thing?
Entirely depends on the system. Some controllers require their display and buttons to do things with the controller, and without htem you lose all those features. Some can be bypassed to at least turn them on, but they will always turn on at their default settings, whatever those were set to at the factory. All depends on which controller you have. They're all different.
If you don't know about your controller, you'd have to either experiment to find out, or contact the manufacturer of the controller, or look around the forum (or the web) and see if anyone else has already done the experiments. Since there are at least thousands, probably more like hundreds of thousands or more, different controllers out there, it's more likely than not that the specific info isn't yet out there anywhere--but if the brand is the same as some already-documented one, it's possible that generalities apply, if not specifics.
Then you said something about the "already in progress firmware" about the LCD3, is it information at any where? Because we will be more than happy to reed it, but I think the LCD3 is not open source.
See the threads by Casainho and Stancecoke here on ES. Or the link Wturber provided. It's a lot of reading, but you'll see exactly what's being done and how.
