Cummins quick check

My dad's got a 2010 t800 tractor with the cummins 600 isx engine. we've had some problems with it, some of them just being simple sensors etc. But to diagnose anything with the check engine light we've been taking it down to the dealer, about a 2 hour drive. We decided it would be good to have a scanner of our own, since we plan on keeping the truck for a long time. My dad just bought a cummins quick check qc5200 handheld. He isn't very computer/technology savvy so I'll be doing most of the work with it I'm sure. Does anybody have any experience with them? Is it a pretty easy to use system or will it take some getting used to? I looked at the product page on the cummins site but there's really not a whole lot of info there. I'll be playing around with it this weekend when I'm home, just wondered if anybody had any tips or pointers to go with it

 

I'm not exactly sure what he paid for it, I looked it up on the cummins site and it was a little over $1k, but that's full retail, usually can get stuff a little cheaper. I'll have to find out. I'm at college, so during the school year I'm only home to work with him on weekends and vacations. He sent me a few pics of it from his cell phone and it has a CD, so that should have the software that I need for the laptop.

According to the cummins site it can read and edit cummins engine configurations and settings. I doubt I'll ever mess with that though..

http://quickcheck.cummins.com/products/qc5200.html

Bagman, that's a pretty good idea. I'll have to try that so we know a good baseline on everything.

 

Well I got it all hooked up yesterday, got pretty much everything figured out. It can do a lot of stuff, but it's a pretty simple setup to learn. I played with it at the house some, then went to the shop and plugged it into the truck. Checked the fault codes, an inactive code for coolant level, which we knew happened a while ago and have already topped it off. And one active fault for an "unknown" code, the quickcheck didn't know what the code was. When I read the fault codes in powerspec CE the code was 4282. When we looked in quickcheck CE it gave the code as 5298. Do you guys have a list of fault codes, or could I maybe get one from a dealer? Anyone know why it gave different numbers for the same code? There were also some differences in some of the engine info. The odometer on the dash shows 94203, which showed up in the quickcheck as engine distance, but ecm distance was 94217, and total distance was 94221. There were a couple other small discrepencies like that. Not really worried about it, just curious why the differences ?
Anyway, I'm pretty happy with it, it was very simple to figure out, and seems like it will be a great tool for us. Here's some pics I took at the house when I was first playing with it.

 

ohh no kidding. so I guess that's normal then....