scanmaster vs mt2500

[usetaboost]

I figure if I'm gonna spend a few hundred bucks on a scan tool, just as well get something that can be used on all my vehicles, right? But everyone has a scanmaster at minimum. What's so great about a scanmaster vs a regular diagnostic tool? Size, convenience, and a little cheaper obviously. What else?

 

[TurboDave]

For the most part, most modern chips have the high speed data "code" in them for the scanmaster, or can have it put in. That way the scanmaster can display a few of the more important pieces of data like O2 for example at a much faster rate than the standard ALDL data rate of one frame per 1.5 seconds

 

[usetaboost]

So refresh rate is slower. Anything else??

 

[TurboDave]

So refresh rate is slower. Anything else??

True, refresh rate on vitually all ALDL based scanners is 1.5 seconds per frame (THATS A LOT OF LOST DATA IN BETWEEN FRAMES) Which means you "might" see 8 frames of date for a typical 12 second quarter mile run. :frown:

And of course scanmaster size and convenience are a big plus.

 

[usetaboost]

OK second question. Can the same scanmaster be swapped between my buick and my 93 t/a? Both are OBD1 codes, so I would think they could be?