Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #61043
From: Charlie England <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Subject: controller, sensor, wiring questions
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 20:11:14 -0500
To: flyrotary <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Currently building the wiring harness for the engine/controller, & have a few questions.

1st, is anyone running multiple devices that need to see the 1-wire O-2 sensor? I need to feed both the EC2 (for auto-tune) and Ed A's monitor. Will there be a conflict if both are connected to the sensor at the same time?

1a (for Ed A), does your monitor care where it's grounded, for stable/accurate measurement? Both pin pairs 19/37 and pins 1/16 go to chassis ground, but the pairs are not common to each other in the EC2. Should it go direct to chassis, or to one or the other of the ground pairs?

2nd, I'd like to include Steve Boese's Rotary Copilot running on an iPaq, for data logging. I'm fairly confident that I'll need to switch pin 27 ( EC2 serial data in) between the two devices. Can pin 7 (EC2 serial data out) feed both devices at once, or should it be switched, as well?

3rd, the high impedance injectors seem to draw less than 1 A each, when on. Are true 10A DC rated switches needed for injector disable, or would lower current, AC rated switches do? A true 10 A DC rated switch is not that easy  to find (or afford...), and with the draw being effectively AC (high speed switching) and <2 A for primary pair and secondary pair, it would seem that a 5A DC rated switch should get the job done safely.

4th, anyone have a source for the RX-8 crank angle sensor connector? I can solder directly to the sensor, but I'd rather use proper connectors, if possible.

Thanks,

Charlie
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