EFI POWWOW

[Bruce]

Amazes me how much material can get covered in 24 hours of guy talk.
For those of you that missed it, well you missed it.

Leave you calendars open for in 6 or so months from now there will be
another one.
Bruce




From: <bcroe at juno.com>
Subject: EFI POWWOW
> I got to meet a bunch of people that were just
> internet contacts before.  Kevin Wong showed up
> with his 455 powered Cadillac, doing the lean burn
> thing to get 20 + miles per gallon.  It was fully temp
> instrumented, guess that propane refrigerant
> helped boost the mpg.  It was running an electronic
> Q-Jet, the WB project should allow him to farther
> optimize lean operation.

> The police cruised by a few times, but no beer or
> burnouts, so they left.

> BobR couldn't make it; another day.  There were
> Ford, Chevy, Buick, Olds, and even diesel engines,
> I think Olds was the winner with 350, 403, and 455
> all running.  Plenty of parts, EPROMS, sockets, wires,
> laptops, o-scopes, etc were on display, with some
> on site assembly going on.  Nobody brought a solder
> sucker.  No luck getting my DATA I/O programmer to
> work.

> Some of the first WB units were operational.  Bruce
> P. pointed out that his unit was taking many minutes
> to warm up.  A quick measurement reveiled the heater
> curent was 1.3 amp.  I also had seen that a current
> limit of 1.2 amp would never fully warm up on one of
> my WB sensors.  The conclusion was that adding one
> or two 15 ohm 1/4 watt resistors in parallel with the 1
> ohm R4 would bump up the heater current around
> .09 amp each.  Bruce will of course report to us the
> resulting warmup time, which I would like to see
> between 1/2 and 1 minute.

> Now where are those parts for the other 250 WB units?

> The cats were watching us, safely locked inside.

> Bruce Roe

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