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Re: Oxygen sensor setup-

To: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Subject: Re: Oxygen sensor setup-
From: Malcolm Walker <walker05@camosun.bc.ca>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 15:28:48 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Barry Schwartz <bschwart@pacbell.net>, triumphs@Autox.Team.Net
On Wed, 4 Feb 1998, Trevor Boicey wrote:

>   It's confusing, but instead of the unit outputting 0.5V at correct,
> it will oscillate from 0.2V to 0.8V when correct, spending roughly
> half the time at each. Too rich or too lean and it will spend much
> more time at one end and cross the middle less often.

Sounds to me like the way our fuel gauge senders work.  Can you get a
voltage stabilizer for the 0-1 volt range?  (obviously one has been made,
if the onboard computer's got one-- but can the average mortal buy it?)

>   With a fast sampling meter you just get unreadable noise, with
> a slow sampling meter you get somewhat random samplings that are
> hard to correlate.

That's why I bought me a good 'ol analog meter... better for trends

-Malcolm


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