[Diy_efi] Affordable accelerometer?

[Brian Michalk]

Try www.memsic.com.

I just made a PC board using eight of their chips for another project to get
a good SNR gain.

 Brian Michalk  <http://www.michalk.com>
Life is what you make of it ... never wish you had done something.
Aviator, experimental aircraft builder, motorcyclist, SCUBA diver
musician, home-brewer, entrepreneur and mostly single


> -----Original Message-----
> From: diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org [mailto:diy_efi-bounces at diy-efi.org]On
> Behalf Of Derek
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 8:48 PM
> To: List for general do-it-yourself EFI talk
> Subject: [Diy_efi] Affordable accelerometer?
>
>
> I need a accelerometer. Preferably in the +/-1gto +/-2g range,
> and I only need a
> single axis. Can be powered by either unregulated 12V or
> regulated 5V. Needs a
> DC output, perferably a 0-5V one with 0G being 2.5V, or some conditioning
> similar.
>
> So far I have found several candidates, but all are $300-$400.
> Which confuses
> me, considering the G-tech Pro has a prettynice dual-axis
> accelerometer built in
> and the whole thing only costs $150.
>
> I was going to use this as a logged input to the AEM EMS computer
> I have. I can
> then log G forces at 250samples/sec, and easily compute
> horsepower from the
> logs. I have been trying to just use the gear ratios and RPM rate
> of change to
> infer G-force, but the data isn't "clean" enough to get a steady
> reading. Lot's
> of peaks and valleys.
>
>
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