Gryphon Acting Up

SDRANGER619 · #1 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 05:48 AM

Hello again everyone,

With Bill's awesome technical help I was able to download my custom tunes to my programmer and programmed the truck.

After a couple days of use looks like I'm having a pretty significant problem. I will summarize as best I can so that maybe can help troubleshoot. (truck runs great by the way)

The unit intermittenly turns on and off; this happened only a few times. Tonight, as I was driving it turned off, when I arrived at my destination I unplugged the unit and pluged it back in. I got a "Connecting to bridge" message. The message was there for about a minute and then I received this error:

Sorry the image is so blurry, but I think you can read what it says

"The OBDII cable is not compatible with this Gryphon. Please call Tech Support to replace the cable."

After fumbling around with it a bit, I finally got it to work, but then the unit froze and when I unplugged, and plugged back in, I got the same "Connecting to bridge" message and then the error message about the cable.

I hope this isn't anything major, I have to switch to my #2 tune since I will be towing this Friday. Anyone have any ideas as to what the heck is going on?

DarkShadowSTX · #2 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 07:40 AM

Sorry to hear you're having trouble again man. Read this over, it sounds like your problem: http://www.f150online.com/forums/chi...i-screwed.html
When it's all said and done, it was the cable and PHP sent a new one out. Also check your battery like the thread suggests. Good luck.

SDRANGER619 · #3 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 01:18 PM

Yeah Bill and I talked about the cable issues and the culprit being the battery. The battery on the truck is fairly new (about a year old).

SDRANGER619 · #4 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 06:29 PM

man this keeps getting wierder. So I left the cable unplugged overnight. Pluged it back this morning and it's been working just fine...? Not sure what's going on.

***Jackpine*** · #5 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 07:58 PM

DO get your battery checked out. Even though it's only a year old, it CAN be going bad. With the cable disconnected, you didn't have the 0.05A drain on the battery that a plugged-in Gryphon pulls.

I've posted about "resting voltage" before too. Open your hood when you finish driving for the day so you can get to the battery without opening an doors. At least 8 hours later or after overnight measure the voltage at the battery terminals with a voltmeter. It should show close to 12.7V if the battery is in excellent shape. If it's lower, I think you may have found the problem.

Monitor the battery PID on your Gryphon too, as you drive. If the alternator is good, you should see 13.9-14.2 volts when driving. Anything much less and I'd have the charging circuit checked.

Do you have a pre-04 truck? The "cable issues" were only showing up on those, I think.

- Jack

***Jackpine*** · #6 Sun, May 30th, 2010, 10:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Groovy Chick

Ranger, please keep us updated. We'll keep tabs on you.

Oh, and Jack... it's a 97-03.

Thanks, that DOES put it into the "cable" issue group, doesn't it?

- Jack