Paul,

     It looks like there are several versions of the Maximite. Which do
     you recommend?

     Subject: K9555 - Silicon Chip Magazine Maximite Colour Computer Kit -
     Altronics

http://www.altronics.com.au/p/k9555-maximite-colour-computer-kit/

     Scott Gettings

     Yes that is it.   Color Maximite.

     They are in Australia so that may be an Australian price.

     There used to be a company in the US called Circuit Gizmo. That sold
     it in the US. Put "circuitgizmo maximite" in your search engine.

     My GOOGLE search engine quit working for some strange reason. They
     wanted me to verify I was not a robot. But that did not work either.
     I think Google is down. Does it work for you?

     Also my smart phone quit working. Same thing Google. Google ought to
     be put out of business. They are a monopoly.

     I used another search engine and found it.

http://circuitgizmos.com/gizmo-store/#!/Maximite-Computer/c/14171440/offset=0&sort=normal

    $59 dollars US for just the assembled PC board. That is the one I use.

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 BTW this  is the site of the guy that invented it. Absolutely a genius.

     http://geoffg.net/maximite.html

http://geoffg.net/About.html

     I wish we had a Color Maximite on the time to climb. Then we would
     have a 100 times better instrument panel. The Motec instrument panel
     sucks big time. The Motec 800 does some of the things like data
     logging which is trivial on a Maximite. If I had my way on the TTC I
     would have used 5 Maximite's instead of anything Motec has. Motec
     cost thousands of dollars.

     Here is the Motec instrment panel. You select one of three with the
     switch. See if you can make head or tails out of it.


     Now here is a screen from the Maximite

     The display potential is enormous. Screens are available in many
     different sizes as they are standard PC VGA's

     Paul Lamar

     It seems that most of the big EFI players have ECU's that are set and
     controlled by software, which have gauges displayed, setting tables
     and code burning ability. Who ever set up the time to climb would
     have used that software, called M1 Tune. That in your pic is a
     dashboard display, fairly limited with just the basics needed to fly
     the aircraft.  Computer hardware is not much good unless there is
     software to go with. Lots of us can tinker with the mechanical, some
     electronic hardware, but programming will send most into hiding!

     Steve Carlisle

    That a real shame. The colleges pushing programming look down
    their nose at BASIC to justify their existence. A five year old
    can learn to program a Maximite. In fact, once you learn it, you
    can explores all sorts of obscure equations and get an A in college math
    and physics for that matter. A tremendous educational  tool.

    Paul Lamar

Paul, how complex would the EFI system be, with using the MaxiMite. Open or closed loop? I know we talked about EcoTrons  wide band sensor and controller, a while back.

Steve Carlisle

You can make it as complex as you wish :-)
I would keep it simple at first and then try changes or improvements  by trial an error.
That is very educational.

As far as understanding obscure physical equations the Maximite can
out put tables in comma delimited form that can be loaded into
most spread sheets and then plotted. This gives you a clear picture
of the relations of all the factors to an idea, concept or physical
phenomena. I have known and used this for at least 30 years.

Merely looking at an equation does not do it for me. I want to explore
the limits of the equation a concept of integral calculus that results
in a much better understanding of a physical phenomena.

This plot by Donald Crawford is a good example.

Also BTW the data logging on the thousands of dollars Motec EFI system
is quite complicated to extract. The Maximite is super simple.
You extract the 32 gig SD Card and read it in your note book computer.
All the data is stored as simple ASCII text.

There are dozens of micro computer programming systems.
Why they do not copy the Maximite system is shear stupidity.

Paul Lamar

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