The old v1 design went through a series of upgrades and it became more powerful than ever.
The main ATmega2560 microcontroller has been replaced with ESP32-PICO-D4.
Its wireless capabilities are not developed yet.
Official LCD support has been withdrawn from the latest firmware but I2C-pins are still broken out to a 6-pin connector for future use. I2C logic voltage is 3.3V.
The UART protocol provided by ESP32 has a built-in logic inverter feature. This means that the SCI-bus of SBEC2 PCMs can be supported with a simple adapter cable.
PCI-bus transceiver has been added to support diagnostics with PCI/SCI-bus equipped PCMs.
With the v2 hardware it’s now possible to reprogram SBEC3 PCM flash memory via SCI-bus.
Note that this scanner does not comply with J2534 standards, so it’s not a passthru device. The demo video above shows the simplicity of writing a new flash file to an SBEC3 PCM. This comes with the disadvantage that the flash file compatibility is not checked. Therefore the user needs to decide whether the selected flash file is compatible with their PCM or not. As a precaution the GUI makes backups of the current flash memory / EEPROM content in case they need to be restored.
Tuners are going to enjoy this feature the most because they can upload their modified flash files easily without hassle.
Chrysler Scanner 