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Reg and paid , cha hoo

Definitely experiencing a combination of wins and losses with things right now. I fixed the wiring on my cam angle sensors, and then it actually looked fairly easy to change the wiring to an 8v supply so I did that too. ...Then the motor wouldnt start at all. It looks like it would work well with an 8v supply, if you use pulldown resistors instead of pull up. So pulled the loom back out, changed it back to 5V supply. Once I got this fixed, the motor would fire up again. Sort of. I guess "fire up" is probably an accurate description: What the hell is going on? How can the timing be obviously so bad, but the motor still runs at all haha. Well it looks like the polarity of the crank angle sensor is back to front. So every now and then it thinks its doing a zillion RPM and then ignites on the intake stroke. So some fairly rookie mistakes going on. But I'm slowly sorting through them. I think it should be idling and running properly pretty soon, hopefully. I've not had any time to fit the exhausts on properly so my 1 stroke external combustion engine / fireworks machine is still pretty bloody noisy.

Swapmeat. Need I say more? Come for the longest running o/s event. Just like every year, it’s the first weekend of August. Friday night shenanigans at the ‘Ding Hotel. We've locked in the Lounge Bar again - a bit further away from the pokies but it's choice. Saturday til noon attendance to the Swapmeet itself hosted by the Palmy North Hot Rod Club down at Manfeild, Feilding. Best place for speedway sauce covered hotdogs and Jag IRS parts. Entrance fee is usually $10 and Automotive only swapsite $10. Bring ya cash. Saturday afternoon adventures at TBC. Likely to be a cruise and/or a mystery shed visit. Saturday night shenanigans at the Caledonian Hall on Weld Street. $10 entry and the first 40 are in the meat raffle draw. Gates open when I've finished my Chicken Tikka Masala and a couple rounds of Bollywood Bingo at FlameFlameFlameFlame. Sunday morning at some cafe but if you were man enough to party hard then you’ll be in no state to eat. It's a book your own affair so ask around the crew and figure out a plan that works for you. Book your own accom, sort your own ride! T-shirts and stickers TBC! Who’s ken?

Yeah ultimately what you are trying to measure is rate of acceleration. Since the mass of the vehicle is fixed, being able to accellerate this at a given rate is a fairly good indicator of your power level. Do you have any logging capabilities with your ECU? Virtual Dyno really is amazing, but you have to constrain all of the variables really well. One problem that even virtual dyno has, and it's way less sensitive to this than a strain gauge - Is that any bumps in the road need a heavy degree of filtering. If you were monitoring load on a driveshaft or suspension part or whatever, you're going to have an incredibly poor signal to noise ratio. If you've got a few bucks to spend, have a look at Dragy. I've seen some friends run these at the drags and have some results back that are insanely close to their actual quarter mile times. https://dragymotorsports.com.au/ The main thing about road testing though is you have to try constrain every variable possible, as much as possible. Not so necessary on a dyno when the car just sits there, more or less.

Make it happen you and @h4nd can bring the sierra

Payday this week....will confirm.

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Tried agin

Didn't seem to go through. You've paid so maybe didn't hit submit.

I'd safe a lot of messing around and just go straight to the @Roman approved virtual dyno app, it makes the graphs so you don't have to.

Limited leave spots limited staff

I get my lead acid bike batteries from Don at Pit Lane out in the country. He's still got stock of genuine Yuasa.

Dumb it down a bit please

Youre going to have to speak a bit slower for those of us who arent electrical engineers.

I've entered I think? Let me know if not.

Also if you havnt entered and got leave sorted please do so asap. We still need another 15ish people to get jt across the line @MightyJoe @ajg193 @yoeddynz @Hannah @Mof @Slacker_Sam. @datto_610 @SunnyCoupe @DRAD1Stylez @Valiant @cletus @Nominal @d.p.n.s @EpochNZ @h4nd @fletch @Mr.Mk1 @danger

Oh yeah, if it's still got the shitty old fashioned selenium rectifier, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenium_rectifier we can perk up the charge system a bit. It'll cost $4.70, though https://www.jaycar.co.nz/br106-10a-600v-bridge-rectifier/p/ZR1320

Wat. Who tf in the name of shitty employers denies leave 4 months away

Mine came with an order of Fiat gubbins from oldtimer-shop.eu in Slovenia.

Exactly!

Tbh, i suspect its probably poo'd It was a cheapie from jaycar. Which is where ill grab another. Apparently being points, they really like a solid 6v to run.

They were made by Tesla did ya know. Presumably thr name was bought out. Modern phones probably have thr same if not better sensors in them now, some of the apps seem quite popular on the YouTube

What happened to those gTech (?) doodads that used to be around to measure performance?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.magicmotorsport.dynoroad

I used to be the distributor for Delphi Mantracourt so can get their gear but it expensive formula 1 use it..... I'm wondering if a oscilloscope app could be used to just record the voltage and compare against the data from ecu.