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When I bought my D2 last year I picked up a used Nanocom One which I used for about 6 months before upgrading to a Evo II - enticed by BBS's pre-christmas to forum members.
Before upgrading I seriously considered purchasing a Hawkeye, but decided that the Nanocom won out in primarily because of the responsiveness of the developers to bug reports.
In some ways I found the Nanocom One easier and quicker to use than the Evo II. It was faster to scroll through the menus using the two buttons on the One than using the touch screen on the Evo II. This was one of the things that made the Hawkeye tempting.
The Hawkeye is made for Bearmach by the same company that manufactured the factory Testbook gear. While this sounds impressive there are two versions of the Testbook system and the Hawkeye is based on the "T4 Hand Held Tester" rather than the full blown T4 diagnostic system.
The Hawkeye has coverage for a larger number of vehicles than the Nanocom Evo, so if you have a stable of LR's that might be a factor.Powered directly from the vehicle's J1962 diagnostic connector, the T4 Hand Held Tester operates as a standalone unit providing generic scan tool functionality as well as fault code reading and basic configuration functions for a wide range of Land Rover vehicle systems. This frees the main T4 Diagnostic System up for more complex diagnostic tasks.
Hawkeye covers: Defender, Defender (Puma), Discovery 1, 2, 3 & 4, Freelander 1 & 2, Range Rover Classic, P38a & L322.
Nanocom EVO covers: Defender, Defender (Puma), Discovery 2, Range Rover P38a.
Within that coverage both the Nanocom and Hawkeye have similar levels of diagnostic ability. There are possibly a couple of settings available in the Nanocom that are not available on the Hawkeye but I haven't had the opportunity to use a Hawkeye and the coverage notes and user manual aren't particularly clear as to what the Hawkeye will and won't do so can't be 100% certain.
That said the Nanocom has a number of advantages over the Hawkeye:
- Updates are downloadable from web.nanocom.it and can be installed using a standard USB cable. Hawkeye updates need to be requested on CD and require an additional cable purchase.
- Instrument mode allows real time display of engine information in a way that is useful when driving.
- Nanocom can save ECU configuration data to file, allowing backup of settings. This is useful as a precaution when changing settings. It's also useful if you need to change an ECU as you can save the current config then write the config to the new ecu.
- Nanocom can write realtime data from ECU's to file for later analysis. The data is written to file every few seconds which is sufficient for getting an overview of trends. There is a very handy graphic viewer for Td5 engine data available from the bottom of this page: td5 map suite
- When displaying realtime data you can recall maximum and minimum values since the last peak reading reset. This is handy if you want to check the maximum MAF reading in a road test session for example.
- Nanocom support staff are very responsive to bug reports and generally helpful. BBS CEO is active on the forum, although since the Nanocom forum opened much of the support activity has moved there. If you check back on some of the Nanocom support threads you'll see that once bugs are identified they are usually dealt with in the next software update.
- Nanocom has a Td5 map module which allows upload of map and remapped files to flashable (NNN prefixed) ECU's.
I personally think that these additional features make the Nanocom EVO a "best buy" for a Disco 2 owner.
cheers
Paul
Originally Posted by It'sNotWorthComplaining!
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