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    Let's do the math....
    GalUse = 1600 - 1475 'which equals 125, this is fine

    MPG = 3280/125 'which equals 26.24 and the .24 is lost because PBP doesn't handle floating point. Therefore in your debug statement MPG/100 is equal to 26/100 which is less than 0 and is displayed as 0. DEC2 MPG displays 26 which is correct.

    Peter
    Last edited by Mith; - 29th January 2007 at 18:36.

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    AH!, OK... Now I see it. Thanks....

    If anyone ever follows this thread or stumbles accross it, here was my solution:

    CalcMPG:
    MPG = Miles * 100 ' Add 2 decimal places to the miles Variable
    MPG = DIV32 GalUse ' perfome a divide on the 32bit result
    Return

    My output now looks like

    Level: 014.75
    MPG: 026.24
    Range: 387.04
    Miles: 032.80

    which is 100% what it should be. So now here comes the fun part... scaling this all into a 24 segment bargraph for LEVEL, MPG and RANGE...

    Thanks again Mith, Like I said some times it just takes a different set of eyeballs to see what someone else cant...
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    Default How to measure fuel

    Hi Bearpawz,
    What are you measuring the fuel consumption with? And are you measuring the miles traveled with a VSS signal?
    Just curious.
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