Digital Distributorless ignition q's

[Mikey B Sorensen]

Nissan made/makes optical crank sensor, placed in the distributor. It has
a little wheel with 360 rectangular holes in it on the outside and 4
holes a little bit towards the middle to indicate TDC for each cylinder.
One of the four was double the size(length) to indicate Cylinder #1.
It was all inside the 'Distributor housing' but without rotor and cap,
since it is a distributor less system on a 4 cylinder engine.
So, maybe you can use the components from the Nissan distributor to adapt
it to a V8 distributor??, the only problem I see is to figure out how to
'add' four more cylinders...
Michael.

On Mon, 02 Mar 1998 08:23:17 -0800 Sandy <sganz at wgn.net> writes:
>At 03:13 PM 3/2/98 +0100, you wrote:
>>Hi guys.
>>
>>I'm planning on building a ddi for a chevy V-8. My questions are:
>>
>>1. could i make a cranktrigger using a wheel with 4 holes where the 
>light
>>can come through (light sensor input) and make one hole the double 
>length to
>>see where no.1 cylinder hangs out. I think with a light-based system 
>you
>>won't have much noise in your signal and the output is very 
>consistent. Any
>>input ?
>If it is in an enclosed place like a distributer, should be fine, but 
>if
>not, dirt will get the best of this system.
>
>
>
>

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