Injector Duty Monitor

Greg Hermann bearbvd at sni.net
Wed Jan 6 06:16:08 GMT 1999


>At 08:32 PM 1/5/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>>> Subject: Injector Duty Monitor
>>>>
>>>> On this subject, what is it that we really want to
>>>> measure? Duty cycle or the pulse width?
>>>>
>>Duty cycle relates to horsepower, pulsewidth to torque--which do you wanna
>>know??
>
>Huh?
>Duty cycle is the ratio of on to off time of the injector...

Yep, which is fuel quantity per unit time, which relates directly to work
per unit time, which is what horsepower is.

 this you need
>to know so you don't have to run your injectors static at WOT and Max
>RPM...

Pulsewidth will tell you how long the injector is open so you know
>how much fuel is being injected...

Fuel quantity per revolution, which relates real directly to torque.

I agree with what you say about what you are checking for, tho.

Regards, Greg
>
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