Car-Pal Bluetooth Interface by Vital Engineering

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Car-Pal Bluetooth Interface by Vital Engineering

Postby w8e2x » Tue Dec 19, 2006 5:57 pm

Has anyone had any experiences with this product?

The Car-Pal OBD-II Vehicle Interface Unit (Bluetooth version)
http://www.car-pal.net/

It claims to support all the protocols and connects via bluetooth which is what I'm after for a clean, wireless hookup to my PDA. It's a lot more expensive than say the Tactrix cable, but if you try and convert the USB -> Serial -> Bluetooth, it'll end up costing alot more and with adapters going everywhere.
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Postby MalibuJack » Thu Dec 21, 2006 9:42 am

It appears to be an ISO type HUB device, capable of using several different protocols. With that said, its more elaborate than a "Dumb cable" and therefore doesn't work at the low-level that the tactrix cable does.

What that means is it probably won't be able to reflash anything, and the odds are pretty slim that you can do low-level logging (MUT logging for Mitsubishi for example) unless it has low-level support, but since it operates differently than the existing applications available for the tactrix cable, it likely won't be able to be used with any existing app.
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Postby christian_piasini » Tue Dec 26, 2006 11:48 am

Hi @ all,

I just try today my Car-Pal Bluetoth with my Asus Poket PC with OBD Gauge V1.3 software on the Panda 1.2 new

I can say work very well.



the link of the software is http://qcontinuum.org/obdgauge is FREE.

regards

Chris
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Postby Mok » Sat Mar 03, 2007 7:22 am

I believe carpal is using the Elm327 chip.

You can get a cheaper version of the same thing at http://scantool.imechatronics.com.

Yes, it doesn't do low level stuffs. But it's hell of a cool gadget when you pair it with your Palm or Windows Smart Phone.
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