Subject: Updated 555 PC boards
From: Rotary Engine
Date: 6/5/2009, 2:57 PM
To: AAA Put this in the To box



   If you want some let me know.

   I moved the op amp circuit and the flow meter circuit
   to the main mother board. I also added an on board 5 volt
  regulator
   and some CAS trigger conditioning circuit.

   For more info on this project read.
   http://www.rotaryeng.net/simple-cheap-555.html

   Paul Lamar

   I want some.

   Wade Bush

   I'll probably get some pricing tomorrow. I will sleep on
  the design
   and check it again before I send it out.


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   Good thing I checked it. Found one mistake.

   Here is a lot of stuff. Feel free to ask questions.
   Next step is the mother board and a bit of work on the op
  amp.

   Is any body interested in a low cost kit of parts? No
  credit cards and
   no checks. Just green cash :)

   You will become part of the 555 EFI R&D community so
  there are no guarantees of any
   kind :) This system as not run on an engine yet.

   Paul Lamar

  Absolutely I would be interested in the parts kit as well.

  Wade Bush


       Paul,
The Freescale MPC555 was a massive engine controller IC.  While
state of the art at the time was 68332 based, The MPC555 w/
PowerPC and Floating point was the next leap forward. Designed
on the outset as engine/transmission controller it was the
follow up to our earlier MPC509.  So Dick Spilo, our Marketing
Manager, called it the MPC555 --- 555 in honor the timing chip!

For those building their own engine controllers. One thing to
look at it the mechanical function.  Generally it was simple
mechanical failures that lead to IC/PCB failures.  Thankfully
things have improved over the years, but I still remember
'reverse engineering a few failures' only to discover the
mechanical issue behind the electrical failure.

A tail of the idle speed controller in my neighbors BMW still lives on:
http://www.unofficialbmw.com/repair_faqs/idle.html
(circa 1993 -- before I moved to Texas).

Tom Walter


Apple and oranges. Our TI TLC555 chip is strictly analog. No software.
Cost less than a buck.

You put in the signal from a mass air flow sensor and out comes a
injector pulse width directly proportional to the amount of air
flowing into the engine.

Paul Lamar


Paul,
Put me down for a set of boards or a parts kit what ever you decide,  I also
might be interested in some 2nd gen P Port rotor housings if Mazdatrix is
doing that or are you putting people in touch with someone that has done the
welding?

Joe Berki
Limo EZ




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