Doing some cleaning and I unearthed an almost new Valentine G-Analyst. Bought this in the late 90's, job got crazy, moved a couple of times and it was forgotten. In light of the current data acqusition tools, does this still have any usefulness?
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Jan. 12, 2009 9:57 a.m. glueguy New Reader
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Jan. 12, 2009 11:07 a.m. Keith SuperDork
It's as good as it always was, and definitely better than nothing. I've always thought these were a very cool tool but I've never had the chance to use one.
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Jan. 12, 2009 12:51 p.m. Tom Heath Production Editor
+1 to Keith's.
Newer tools will do more, but the G-Analyst was the standard for a long time. Good unit.
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Jan. 12, 2009 7:41 p.m. glueguy New Reader
I have the original software, which is on a 3.5" floppy (at least it's not 5.25...), complete with parallel cable connection. I'm not even sure if this would work with Win98 or Vista, even if I still had a floppy drive.
Was this tool orphaned or did anyone ever write modern software for it?
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Jan. 12, 2009 7:47 p.m. Per Schroeder Technical Editor/Advertising Director
Oooh, I've got some new A008RTU tires I'd like to test.
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Jan. 12, 2009 7:48 p.m. pinchvalve SuperDork
I could write something for you if you need it. (HA HA HA HA HA HA HA) The thought of me writing code made me laugh, but people on here handle the Megasquirt, so who knows?
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Jan. 12, 2009 8:06 p.m. Keith SuperDork
Per Schroeder wrote:
Oooh, I've got some new A008RTU tires I'd like to test.
Funny guy - but I run the A008 on my Mini
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Jan. 12, 2009 8:11 p.m. RedS13Coupe New Reader
glueguy wrote:
I have the original software, which is on a 3.5" floppy (at least it's not 5.25...), complete with parallel cable connection. I'm not even sure if this would work with Win98 or Vista, even if I still had a floppy drive.
Was this tool orphaned or did anyone ever write modern software for it?
If you have a floppy drive, and a serial port on your computer I would actually bet vista may be able to do it. Just right click the install exe and choose properties, then choose to run it in win 95 compatibility mode. Vista will "emulate" versions back to 3.1 iirc.
Its help me run some older stuff.
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Jan. 12, 2009 8:33 p.m. m4ff3w Dork
I have a new Valentine G Analyst test unit, but development seems to have died in June 07.
It is a small bluetooth device that connects to a Palm PDA, (my case a Treo - take that iPhone!) but the software company hasn't posted any updates since 06/2007, so I guess V1 nixed it.
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April 25, 2011 12:56 p.m. ThirdGen7
Sorry to resurrect a dead thread, but does anyone have any idea of where I might find some kind of protocol specification for this beast? I just bought one on ebay and wouldn't mind trying to create a new application for it.
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April 25, 2011 2:06 p.m. jrw1621 SuperDork
Some quick googling brought up this.
http://mrganalyst.typepad.com/
There are links to software about mid-page.If this does not work, I would just call out to Valentine 1 (the radar detector people.) Mike Valentine himself may very well answer the phone himself. Ask them if they have any leads since he was part of the company that made the G.
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April 25, 2011 4:57 p.m. Woody SuperDork
Keith wrote:
Per Schroeder wrote:
Oooh, I've got some new A008RTU tires I'd like to test.
Funny guy - but I run the A008 on my Mini
I miss those.
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April 25, 2011 8:57 p.m. m4ff3w SuperDork
jrw1621 wrote:
Some quick googling brought up this.
http://mrganalyst.typepad.com/
There are links to software about mid-page.If this does not work, I would just call out to Valentine 1 (the radar detector people.) Mike Valentine himself may very well answer the phone himself. Ask them if they have any leads since he was part of the company that made the G.
That's what I have. Somewhere in the garage.
I'd wager it is just an accelerometer that outputs regular old serial data & then has a serial to bluetooth adapter hanging off of it.
