Scangauge 2 recommended?

Desert Captain wrote:
I may try running with the TPS (Throttle Position sensor) displayed to see if it can teach my right foot anything the mpg displays might have missed.

TPS is basically a number describing how much gas is being burned up at that moment. I was quite surprised how well I was able to adapt to the TPS number.

It has been a number of months now, but I recall something like the following for my 2007 E350-V10 motor home, not towing on that trip.
Foot off the gas pedal is 17
Pedal to the floor is 76
Sweet Spot is 27

Whatever your numbers are, the driver quickly learns to watch how the TPS number affects real-time fuel economy. I found it very easy to maintain a certain position of the gas pedal for best fuel economy. Of coarse inclines, head wind, and other factors will mess it up pretty good. You need to press down on the gas as needed as not to be trouble for those around you. But it's great for the flats at a steady maintainable speed.

I have one in my diesel truck (f350) and it monitors a lots of things. Put one in the rv (e450 v10) and it does not monitor much. Wrote the company and asked why and they gave an answer of basically its for diesels and not designed to monitor the same things with the gas engines in mind! So can only monitor some of the things I do in the diesel.

You might wsant to go to their website and check what you want or write them and ask specific questions. IE no EOT in gas engines were a couple of others cant remember right now.

I use an ELM327 Interface with Bluetooth to my 7" Android tablet running the Torque app. The Torque app allows you to also pick up items from the tablets built in GPS. Therefore, one screen allows me to display a Compass, GPS elevation, Clock, Gear, Trans Fluid Temp, Air Temp, MPG, MPG (avg),Coolant Temp,Fuel %, Speed MPH, GPS Speed MPH, and Cylinder Head Temp. You add the gauges you want on the screens, and you can have multiple screens. Besides the realtime information the app will give you a Map View of where you have travelled. Thus you connect to WiFi, and google maps you can see the route and speeds through the route. All pretty good for a $5 app. Of course you need to buy the OBD interface, and have a tablet.

I have the scangaugeII in my rig as well - This is the location I found works best for me:




As you can see in the photo, I used small adhesive clips to manage the cord. Using these clips and velcro on the display, I can easily move the gauge from the RV to another vehicle.

Ignore the wire running diagonally - it's another one for my handheld GPS.

The plugin & iPad display sounds interesting as well. I can see where that would be very useful when trying to troubleshoot an issue, but for day to day use, you'd need to dedicate a device to the application.

I have one and think it's great. My phone is busy doing other stuff...like being a phone (or a map, or finding fuel, or monitoring weather alerts, etc). The scan gauge lives in the RV. I have another cable I can use to plug it into the toad if need be (cable in RV is routed concealed).