Forscan - Auto Regen?

[WhiskyThrottle]

I have been searching but have not been able to find what enabling the Auto Regen with Forscan will do. The truck seems to automatically regen as it is by default from the factory.
Can someone explain what enabling the Auto Regen will do differently?

 

[mds2004]

You can enable both the DPF percentage and the Auto Regen tick box like you mentioned. It gives you to the option to uncheck the box if you do not want it to auto regen if you know you are on a short drive and cannot complete it, and then check it on again when you know you have time to run it. Some say that when the tick box is off and you are at 100%, you can also run a manual regen in the percentage screen when in your driveway and in park.

I haven't seen that yet though as I just picked up my truck. It is my daily and my commute is less than 10 minutes so this may work well for me or others with short commutes.

 

[jhblaze1]

You can enable both the DPF percentage and the Auto Regen tick box like you mentioned. It gives you to the option to uncheck the box if you do not want it to auto regen if you know you are on a short drive and cannot complete it, and then check it on again when you know you have time to run it. Some say that when the tick box is off and you are at 100%, you can also run a manual regen in the percentage screen when in your driveway and in park.

I haven't seen that yet though as I just picked up my truck. It is my daily and my commute is less than 10 minutes so this may work well for me or others with short commutes.

it's absurd that they got rid of the manual regen option. Maybe dumb people were burning their houses down doing it in the garage or something.

From what I can tell, not getting your regens done, constantly aborting them due to not driving enough etc can cause a very expensive trip to the dealership. Having the option to just run regens at home would make life a lot simpler.

I've got 2600 miles on mine and have no clue when it's going its regen thing. I've heard a light flashes for like 2 seconds to tell you but it's easy to miss and I guess if it's getting real dirty it will prompt you to dive to regen but I've never had that message come up.

If I didn't live in CA I'd rip the whole fucking thing out.

 

[mds2004]

it's absurd that they got rid of the manual regen option. Maybe dumb people were burning their houses down doing it in the garage or something.

From what I can tell, not getting your regens done, constantly aborting them due to not driving enough etc can cause a very expensive trip to the dealership. Having the option to just run regens at home would make life a lot simpler.

I've got 2600 miles on mine and have no clue when it's going its regen thing. I've heard a light flashes for like 2 seconds to tell you but it's easy to miss and I guess if it's getting real dirty it will prompt you to dive to regen but I've never had that message come up.

If I didn't live in CA I'd rip the whole fucking thing out.

I feel the same way about CA. I wish I could rip it out as a big FU to Newsom but unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

I'm just under 1000 miles but my DPF shows right at 50% so once I get to 100% I will see if it is possible to do the manual regen.

 

[Apparition]

it's absurd that they got rid of the manual regen option. Maybe dumb people were burning their houses down doing it in the garage or something.

From what I can tell, not getting your regens done, constantly aborting them due to not driving enough etc can cause a very expensive trip to the dealership. Having the option to just run regens at home would make life a lot simpler.

I've got 2600 miles on mine and have no clue when it's going its regen thing. I've heard a light flashes for like 2 seconds to tell you but it's easy to miss and I guess if it's getting real dirty it will prompt you to dive to regen but I've never had that message come up.

If I didn't live in CA I'd rip the whole fucking thing out.

I’m with you, about 1500 miles and no idea if it’s done a regen.

 

[Loshad]

Supposedly it's obvious if you watch your instantaneous mileage.

 

[WhiskyThrottle]

I know there has to me someone that knows what "auto regen" enable in Forscan does.

 

[mds2004]

It gives you the check box in the settings tab on the gauge to disable it the auto regen.

 

[AFTRSHK]

While Forscan can be used to turn on the DPF Load percentage and re-gen control (I think on the latter), I did not have any luck getting it show up correctly on my truck and it also messed with my CHMSL camera (it got fuzzy). Something with the CAN-bus wasn't working right.

But I had also already bought this:

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And have these screen views on my phone with the OBDLink App - the first screen shows speed and DPF Load percentage (the app isn't connected to my truck in this case), and at least you know if you get to 100%, it is going to start to regen:

And this screen view shows the temperatures of:
Exhaust Gas Temp before Diesel Oxidation Catalyst,
EGR Temps
Exhaust Gas Temp after Diesel Oxidation Catalyst,
Exhaust Gas Temp after Selective Catalytic Reduction,
and Exhaust Gas Temp after DPF.

Usually, during regen, EGT after SCR and EGT after DPF almost always go well above 1000-1100degF, so at least you know IT IS happening and can drive a little longer to complete the cycle.

 

[WhiskyThrottle]

It gives you the check box in the settings tab on the gauge to disable it the auto regen.

Okay, got it. So how do you then perform the regen? I thought that Operator Initiated regens were not an option on these newer trucks, even with forscan edits.

 

[legmar]

You can enable both the DPF percentage and the Auto Regen tick box like you mentioned. It gives you to the option to uncheck the box if you do not want it to auto regen if you know you are on a short drive and cannot complete it, and then check it on again when you know you have time to run it. Some say that when the tick box is off and you are at 100%, you can also run a manual regen in the percentage screen when in your driveway and in park.

I haven't seen that yet though as I just picked up my truck. It is my daily and my commute is less than 10 minutes so this may work well for me or others with short commutes.

This is the correct answer.

Enabling the DPF % just gives you a way to monitor how much time is left before you hit 100% and an auto regen starts.

Enabling “auto regen” in forscan is confusing. Here’s the explanation... your truck will already do automatic regens from the factory but there is no checkbox in the menu to disable auto regen. If you enable the forscan “auto regen” it will add the checkbox in the truck’s menu. This allows you to go to the “auto regen” menu item and uncheck it to tell the truck to stop doing auto regens. When I did this and my DPF % hit 100 it wasn’t long before I saw a prompt show up asking me if I wanted to initiate a regen. You’re not able to start a regen any time you want before 100% but you can have some control around starting it once you hit 100 if you have the auto regen box in the truck menu unchecked.

 

[Pig9r]

I appreciate the clarification on enabling the checkbox. I was unsure about doing that. I have about 2500 miles on mine. I enabled the % screen with Forscan. I have noticed that generally in auto mode when it gets to 75% it goes into regen. It doesn’t care if you are idling, going 25 or 75, it will still cook it off if the motor is up to temp. Seems to take less than 10 mins to get to 0% from 75%. I towed for the first time this weekend and I did notice DPF went from 30% to 0%, so conditions must have been right to let it burn off.

 

[20F350]

It does a passive burn when towing.
Temps are hot enough it will stay at zero if your towing enough weight.

 

[mds2004]

It does a passive burn when towing.
Temps are hot enough it will stay at zero if your towing enough weight.

I also believe unchecking the auto regen box will only disable "active" regen, but not "passive" regen. Is that correct?

 

[20F350]

Yes Sir that is correct.

 

[Cropgun]

it's absurd that they got rid of the manual regen option. Maybe dumb people were burning their houses down doing it in the garage or something.

From what I can tell, not getting your regens done, constantly aborting them due to not driving enough etc can cause a very expensive trip to the dealership. Having the option to just run regens at home would make life a lot simpler.

I've got 2600 miles on mine and have no clue when it's going its regen thing. I've heard a light flashes for like 2 seconds to tell you but it's easy to miss and I guess if it's getting real dirty it will prompt you to dive to regen but I've never had that message come up.

If I didn't live in CA I'd rip the whole fucking thing out.

I’m with you, about 1500 miles and no idea if it’s done a regen.

Supposedly it's obvious if you watch your instantaneous mileage.

There is no light. You need to watch your "live" fuel mileage screen. It will drop quite a bit in regen. Mine usually reads 8-10mpg during regen. I saw a post here or on a different powerstroke forum (can't remember) of a guy that religiously logs his fuel mileage and regen cycles. The 6.7 regens about every 500 or so miles. Mine is in the same ballpark.

 

[Loshad]

I thought it was more like every 900.

 

[Apparition]

There is no light. You need to watch your "live" fuel mileage screen. It will drop quite a bit in regen. Mine usually reads 8-10mpg during regen. I saw a post here or on a different powerstroke forum (can't remember) of a guy that religiously logs his fuel mileage and regen cycles. The 6.7 regens about every 500 or so miles. Mine is in the same ballpark.

14 mpg is about as low as I’ve seen my live fuel mileage.

 

[Loshad]

This is the first thread that comes up on a FORScan search so I will ask here.

1. I recall from another thread that through Forescan you can program in a dash display gauge of DPF%, correct?
2. If I read a few posts here correctly the DPF% is not a
cast-in-stone indication of an approaching regen as it seems it can happen almost any time especially while towing.
3. There is no Forscan capability to program something to tell you when a regen is happening, correct?
4. It sounds like the DPF% 'gauge' is fairly useless.
5. AFTRSHK's OBDII Link MX+ gizmo looks like the only way to easily note that a regen is occurring.
6. Finally, I have an old Windows Vista (I think) laptop collecting dust. Would that run FORScan?
edit: They say yes
7. I don't see a Help file on their website. Is it built into the software? edit: My bad, I just saw the Documentation menu.
8. Finally, does anybody know what the FORScan developers are smoking? $10 seems ridiculously cheap for software that actually works!

Thanks!

ps
Why the hell do they offer it in Russian, or is that a function of what they're smoking?

 

[mds2004]

This is the first thread that comes up on a FORScan search so I will ask here.

1. I recall from another thread that through Forescan you can program in a dash display gauge of DPF%, correct?
2. If I read a few posts here correctly the DPF% is not a
cast-in-stone indication of an approaching regen as it seems it can happen almost any time especially while towing.
3. There is no Forscan capability to program something to tell you when a regen is happening, correct?
4. It sounds like the DPF% 'gauge' is fairly useless.
5. AFTRSHK's OBDII Link MX+ gizmo looks like the only way to easily note that a regen is occurring.
6. Finally, I have an old Windows Vista (I think) laptop collecting dust. Would that run FORScan?
7. I don't see a Help file on their website. Is it built into the software? edit: My bad, I just saw the Documentation menu.
8. Finally, does anybody know what the FORScan developers are smoking? $10 seems ridiculously cheap for software that actually works!

Thanks!

ps
Why the hell do they offer it in Russian, or is that a function of what they're smoking?

1. Correct
2. There is a passive regen where when hot enough it will burn off what it can. When at or near 100% it will perform an active regen.
3. Correct
4. I don't think so as I know when it's close to the active regen.