EFI POWWOW

[Programmer]

Sounded like a good time...

Lyndon
----- Original Message -----
From: <bcroe at juno.com>
To: <gmecm at diy-efi.org>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 1:43 AM
Subject: EFI POWWOW


> Saturday I made the 5 hour trip to my 1st EFI
> POW-WOW.  A flat tire 2 miles from home caused
> me to go back for another spare.  North of
> Indianapolis they closed the interstate, but I got
> there anyway.  Found gas at $1.299 one place.
>
> 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.
>
> Bar-B-Que was great Sat afternoon; the sauce was
> very hot.
>
> 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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