[Diy_efi] Use O2 sensor on motorcycle?

[bcroe at juno.com]

For anyone who misunderstood, I meant the DIY-WB.  If you 
are going to add a battery where there was none, clearly all 
the rules change.  Bruce Roe

On Mon, 03 Jun 2002 08:38:27 -0700 Garfield Willis <garwillis at msn.com>
writes:
> On Fri, 31 May 2002 22:33:02 -0500, bcroe at juno.com wrote:
> 
> >To run a WB you'll need 14 volts at near 1.5 amps, less will not 
> >succeed.  If you have no battery, I doubt the power is clean 
> >enough or properly regulated to work.
> 
> Nope, not so. This limitation is ONLY true of the 'dweeb-o-meter' 
> (aka
> diy-wb). To make this generic a statement "to run a WB..." is a bit
> misleading. I just recently posted the names of whole bunch of
> commercial products that WILL work on well below ALT output levels.
> 
> I won't go the other way and claim even a pen-light will power a 
> real
> WBO2 meter, but surely if you're interested mainly in tuning, you 
> could
> outfit yourself at least temporarily with a sufficiently sized 
> battery
> for your tuning runs, that WOULD power just about any small AFR 
> meter
> product (I'm obviously excluding bench-top and dyno-shop models).
> 
> Even a dinky 14ah motorcycle battery would give you *several hours* 
> of
> tuning time between recharges. And ANY commercial AFR meter 
> available
> today will work on such a battery voltage, EXCEPT of course for that
> dweeb-stuff.
> 
> Gar

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