In cylinder pressure measurement

[steve ravet]

www.kistler.co.uk has what you're looking for.  They have sensors built
into spark plugs, and ones that you drill/tap into the head.  I had a
catalog from them once, if you want to buy any of their stuff you'd
better apply for a government grant first because it isn't cheap.

--steve

"C. Brooks" wrote:
> 
> Has anyone ever heard of anybody doing this? I was talking with someone
> about data acquisition systems and the subject came up while we were
> discussing methods of knock detection. I'm not to enthusiastic about being
> able to monitor A/F ratios accurately or in realtime, and our conversation
> kinda stuck with me.
> 
> If anyone's ever seen or heard about somebody performing in cylinder
> pressure measurements I'd love to hear about it. I imagine the transducers
> would have to be pretty tough, how would they mount? What kind of sample
> rate do you think would be needed? Best of all, who would make a sensor that
> could take the abuse???
> 
> Charles Brooks

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Steve Ravet
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