hi I'm Chris from Dynojet today we're going to discuss the adding of power
commander five accessories to the device Network every Power Commander V
accessory is going to come with one can link cable and one can termination plug
the can termination plug is very commonly overlooked it is a necessity
that this termination plug be installed at the end of our can bus for instance
if we were to add the auto-tune ignition module secondary fuel module or even the
LCD to the Power Commander V you'll notice that every accessory has two
canned port plugs much like the power commander has in order to link these
together you'll need to connect the can cable to one of the ports on the Power
Commander and it does not matter which port you use and you need to use the
other end of the can cable to link it to the accessory once you have the cable
linked in you'll also need to have a canned termination plug installed at
either end of the canned bus so if for here we'll put it in the secondary fuel
module now if we were to add say the ignition module we could simply connect
a canned link cable from the ignition module to the unused port on the Power
Commander so now I have a canned cable linking the power commander to the
secondary fuel module and also a can cable linking the ignition module to the
Power Commander there is no particular order required the module simply need to
be daisy chained together and whichever open port is at the end of either chain
needs to be terminated with AK and termination plug and this holds true no
matter how many accessories you have these these modules do not need to be
connected in a particular order they just need to be linked together through
the can bus with a termination plug at the end of the chain I'm going to link
an auto-tuned kit to this ignition module
and I'm going to lastly I'm going to put the can termination plug into the
auto-tune and if I even want to go beyond that I can connect the LCD
accessory into the Power Commander V
so now they're all daisy chained together now sometimes you might find
that these canned cables are kind of hard to click in you must insert them
until you feel or hear an actual click if you're having a hard time getting one
to click in you might find a small plastic burr on the inside of the
locking tab and it can be very helpful to take a sharp knife and just scrape
out the inside of that horseshoe-shaped locking tab and just scrape that burr
off and that'll help them lock into the connector a lot easier once we've
ensured that all of our Hardware connections are correct we also need to
add the secondary fuel module and/or the ignition module to the network through
the software now if you have all of the devices linked properly through the
candling cable and the can termination plug at the end of the chain you can
communicate through one USB cable connected to your computer if you have
your vehicle running if your vehicle is not running you'll need to have a
separate USB cable connected to each individual device simultaneously to
communicate with the entire product network for this demonstration
these modules are not installed to the vehicle so we have a Power Commander 5a
secondary fuel module and an ignition module link to this computer through
three separate USB cables when we've launched the Power Commander five
software the software will automatically see that there is a secondary fuel
module and it'll prompt us to add this now add this secondary fuel module to
the to the network we're just going to hit yes
it'll synchronize
and now it's going to prompt us to add the ignition module to the network
we'll hit yes here
so now all three devices have been linked together as one network if we do
not get the prompts you can go to power commander tools manage Network search
for devices to add also from the same menu if you ever want to take any of
these devices off of the network you can go to power commander tools manage
network secondary fuel module or ignition module and select remove we
want to check our firmware by going to view device information from the device
information screen we can see the power commander five device and we can see
that it's currently running firmware version zero one eight thirteen we also
see the ignition module it's also running firmware zero one eight thirteen
and third our secondary fuel module is also running from we're version one
eight thirteen if we go to Power Commander comm will select the race
ready side of the website we'll go to the download section and we'll select
Power Commander five downloads
on the Power Commander five downloads page we can see links to the latest
software and firmware versions here at the very top of the of the downloads
list we see Power Commander five software 106 4 this matches the version
number of the software we're currently running on this computer so there'll be
no need to reinstall the software with the latest version for this machine but
if you happen to be running a later software version than what is currently
posted here on the website then you will want to download and install the latest
version of the Power Commander 5 software on your computer if we come
down here to the firmware section we'll see that where the latest firmware is
Power Commander 5 firmware version zero one nine zero this exceeds our current
firmware version of one eight thirteen so we're going to want to download this
firmware file when we download this firmware file it will come with a zipped
format and where we choose to extract the file is irrelevant as long as we
know where it's going the preferred directory that we would save this file
to is in your hard drive under the Program Files folder the subdirectory
Power Commander 5 and then the other subdirectory firmware updates this is
the default folder that the software will look for the file but if you want
to save this to your desktop you can certainly do that as long as you know to
access it from the desktop later now to update the firmware we'll need to pull
up the Power Commander 5 software and we'll need to go to power commander
tools and we'll select the firmware update option we can also hit the
keyboard sequence control you once in the firmware update window we can see
the three devices that are currently in our network all three of these devices
need to be updated as they are all three running version 1 8 13 we want to update
them to run 0 1 9 so we'll select the first device in the list which is the
power commander 5 primary module after selecting that device we'll click update
and we'll open the latest version firmware in this case zero one nine zero
and now that the Power Commander 5s firmware has been updated we'll go down
the list and select the next module in this case the ignition module and we'll
update it with the same firmware file and lastly we'll update the secondary
fuel module
now that we've updated all three modules in our network we can verify that all
three modules are currently running the latest firmware by going to view device
information and looking at the firmware version in each module in this case we
have 0 1 9 in the power commander 0 1 9 in the ignition module and 0 1 9 in the
secondary fuel module if updating the firmware for the first time on your
particular computer your computer will be prompted to install USB bootloader
drivers this usually causes the process to timeout and fail the first time and
your computer is going to want to ask you if you want to reboot
if you reboot the computer and run the update again after the reboot the update
should go all the way through properly the second time around