Re: Fuelie on the Dyno
Pat,
Innovate stuff is reasonably priced and modular. You can add capability as you identify the need. For example, since acquiring the basic hardware to monitor AFR, I've added 8 channels of thermocouple input and 4 general purpose channels. Everything daisy chains together such that there is just a single serial link back to the laptop computer. I can add even more channels at any time.
The datalogging software is easy to figure out and can display the data in interesting ways. For example, it can display histograms of any channel over any span of time you select. It can plot any channel as a function of any other channel. If you want to do your own analysis, you can export the data in CSV format which most any spreadsheet software can read.
My one criticism is about their customer support. Innovate used to have a lively on-line forum with active participation by Innovate engineers. Some customers, who didn't know what they were talking about, were critical to the point of being annoying. Eventually the Powers That Be shut the forum down and made the archives unavailable. A big loss, in my opinion. Since then I haven't been able to get their customer service people to respond. Of course YMMV.
Pat,
Innovate stuff is reasonably priced and modular. You can add capability as you identify the need. For example, since acquiring the basic hardware to monitor AFR, I've added 8 channels of thermocouple input and 4 general purpose channels. Everything daisy chains together such that there is just a single serial link back to the laptop computer. I can add even more channels at any time.
The datalogging software is easy to figure out and can display the data in interesting ways. For example, it can display histograms of any channel over any span of time you select. It can plot any channel as a function of any other channel. If you want to do your own analysis, you can export the data in CSV format which most any spreadsheet software can read.
My one criticism is about their customer support. Innovate used to have a lively on-line forum with active participation by Innovate engineers. Some customers, who didn't know what they were talking about, were critical to the point of being annoying. Eventually the Powers That Be shut the forum down and made the archives unavailable. A big loss, in my opinion. Since then I haven't been able to get their customer service people to respond. Of course YMMV.
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