Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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It seems like this should be an easy way to make a crude Air/Fuel gauge for basic carburetor tuning on normally aspirated cars.
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Re: Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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It seems like this should be an easy way to make a crude Air/Fuel gauge for basic carburetor tuning on normally aspirated cars. You can with a narrow band sensor but it does not tell you much. Hook the heater up to 12V and measure the output of the sensor. With the engine running, the sensor will read 1 volt when at 14.7 to 1 AFR. Any other voltage indicates the AFR is not stoic. Wideband sensors give you a lot more information but they are not linear and indicators like the LC-1 translates the voltages for you into AFR. There are Arduino applications to do the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Izy425jGQCraig
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Re: Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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It seems like this should be an easy way to make a crude Air/Fuel gauge for basic carburetor tuning on normally aspirated cars. You can with a narrow band sensor but it does not tell you much. Hook the heater up to 12V and measure the output of the sensor. With the engine running, the sensor will read 1 volt when at 14.7 to 1 AFR. Any other voltage indicates the AFR is not stoic. Wideband sensors give you a lot more information but they are not linear and indicators like the LC-1 translates the voltages for you into AFR. There are Arduino applications to do the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Izy425jGQCraig Widebands are actually linear. My LC2 talks to my Megasquirt ECU with a two-point line, "what AFR 0v" is and "what AFR 5v is". Arduinos are fun to play with and I could see this being one of the lowest-cost solutions, if you have a little electrical/coding background.
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Re: Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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The signal really should be cleaned up by a signal conditioner of some sort, using a multimeter will bounce around to a point it will not be useful. Use an analog meter, response time is slow enough to "condition" the signal.
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Re: Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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It seems like this should be an easy way to make a crude Air/Fuel gauge for basic carburetor tuning on normally aspirated cars. You can with a narrow band sensor but it does not tell you much. Hook the heater up to 12V and measure the output of the sensor. With the engine running, the sensor will read 1 volt when at 14.7 to 1 AFR. Any other voltage indicates the AFR is not stoic. Wideband sensors give you a lot more information but they are not linear and indicators like the LC-1 translates the voltages for you into AFR. There are Arduino applications to do the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Izy425jGQCraig Widebands are actually linear. My LC2 talks to my Megasquirt ECU with a two-point line, "what AFR 0v" is and "what AFR 5v is". Arduinos are fun to play with and I could see this being one of the lowest-cost solutions, if you have a little electrical/coding background. Mine was even easier: just told the Megasquirt it was an LC-2 (LC-1 with no display). Craig
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Re: Anyone measure A/F Ratio using multimeter with an O2 sensor?
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It seems like this should be an easy way to make a crude Air/Fuel gauge for basic carburetor tuning on normally aspirated cars. You can with a narrow band sensor but it does not tell you much. Hook the heater up to 12V and measure the output of the sensor. With the engine running, the sensor will read 1 volt when at 14.7 to 1 AFR. Any other voltage indicates the AFR is not stoic. Wideband sensors give you a lot more information but they are not linear and indicators like the LC-1 translates the voltages for you into AFR. There are Arduino applications to do the same thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Izy425jGQCraig Widebands are actually linear. My LC2 talks to my Megasquirt ECU with a two-point line, "what AFR 0v" is and "what AFR 5v is". Arduinos are fun to play with and I could see this being one of the lowest-cost solutions, if you have a little electrical/coding background. Mine was even easier: just told the Megasquirt it was an LC-2 (LC-1 with no display). Craig The preloaded LC2 numbers varied slightly from how my LC2 came from Innovate, so I loaded those specific numbers in.
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