I have decided to use the Megasquirt
system to control the turbo compound engine on the dyno
motor. Tracy's computer is too hard to tune
for the dyno loads. Also the price is right
on the Megasquirt. I know how to program the
6800 processors in assembly language so I can
make changes in the code for aircraft use or turbo
compound use.
Anybody using Megasquirt on here with their
rotary engine?
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This is a gif of the overall Megasquirt system.
There is a pile of software running on notebook
computers for setting up the tables and monitoring
the EFI system in real time. It will even do it
through Blue Tooth wireless.
The relay box makes it
much easier to wire as you don't have to solder
a whole bunch of small wires to the back of a 36 pin
DB connector.
The down side is it requires a throttle position
sensor which I can adapt to my custom made
throttle body.
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.nline tool for gearbox calculation.
Paul,
If you dig deap enough into the MegaSquirt web site I think you
will find people that have 13Bs running with it. It has been a few
months but that is what I remember.
MegaSquirt is high on my list of todos. I am in a non-spending
mode until my taxes come back from the accountant. I don't know what
my tax liability is.
A friend is converting a carburetor 2L VW bus to MegaSquirt. I
haven't seen him recently, so I don't know how it is coming.
I was think that I would build a rack and pinion along the top of
the slide throttle for a position indicator. Either cut a rack into
the Teflon or trim the Teflon down and add a metal rack a bit thinner
to the top of the slide. A multi-turn variable resistor on a pinion
--
Blake C. Lewis
Another trick for a roll your own linear position indicator
is wrap a small AC cable around the 1/4 inch shaft of a
ten turn pot and use a screen door type spring on the
other end of the cable to keep tension on it.
Also linear pots are available off the shelf.
http://www.omega.com/toc_asp/subsectionSC.asp?subsection=J&book=Pressure&all=1-
Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.
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