Wideband datalogging
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Wideband datalogging
Time to finally get a wideband... I would like to have a single logging system to collect RPM, TPS, MAP, AFR, etc. for tuning purposes. Is it easier to get something simple like an Innovative LC-1 and push the output to a laptop running Datamaster or would it be better to get something big like a PLX R-500 and feed the sensors into it? It seems to me that AFR without RPM and MAP would be useless for tuning and the R-500 might allow me to not take my laptop along all the time. Oh, and I need a narrowband output so I don't need to use a 3rd O2 sensor.
Is anyone running the R-500? The knock sensor stuff sound interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with our 2 knock sensors. The G-meter for $80 looks like a great deal too...
This is on a built up 383 with blower and alky/h2o injection
Thanks!
Is anyone running the R-500? The knock sensor stuff sound interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with our 2 knock sensors. The G-meter for $80 looks like a great deal too...
This is on a built up 383 with blower and alky/h2o injection
Thanks!
Last edited by ztrips; Mar 21, 2007 at 01:03 PM.
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From: Bartlett IL
Time to finally get a wideband... I would like to have a single logging system to collect RPM, TPS, MAP, AFR, etc. for tuning purposes. Is it easier to get something simple like an Innovative LC-1 and push the output to a laptop running TunerCat or would it be better to get something big like a PLX R-500 and feed the sensors into it? It seems to me that AFR without RPM and MAP would be useless for tuning and the R-500 might allow me to not take my laptop along all the time. Oh, and I need a narrowband output so I don't need to use a 3rd O2 sensor.
Is anyone running the R-500? The knock sensor stuff sound interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with our 2 knock sensors. The G-meter for $80 looks like a great deal too...
This is on a built up 383 with blower and alky/h2o injection
Thanks!
Is anyone running the R-500? The knock sensor stuff sound interesting, but I'm not sure how that would work with our 2 knock sensors. The G-meter for $80 looks like a great deal too...
This is on a built up 383 with blower and alky/h2o injection
Thanks!
www.zeitronix.com. They also have software to output to PDA.
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the LM-2 has the RPM box that will allow you to log RPM and 3 or 4 other inputs like you want to do. www.innovatemotorsports.com
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the LM-2 has the RPM box that will allow you to log RPM and 3 or 4 other inputs like you want to do. www.innovatemotorsports.com
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STAY AWAY FROM PLX! I bought a brand new DM5 while the car was down for winter work, and by the time I got it installed and tested, I discovered it didn't work, no 3.3V output to the display. I called them and told them to send me an advanced exchange on my CC and I'd return the bad unit once I had a new replacement (the narrowband output part was working and driving my ECM).
Anyway, two weeks later still no replacement. So I call the guy again, he says he'll get right back to me. A day later I finally get an email saying I need to send mine back, and pay for it's repair since it's more than 90 days old!
No way I'm going to give those SOB's one red cent more.
Anyway, two weeks later still no replacement. So I call the guy again, he says he'll get right back to me. A day later I finally get an email saying I need to send mine back, and pay for it's repair since it's more than 90 days old!
No way I'm going to give those SOB's one red cent more.
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