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I asked a mate if he had any used panels. He said no, but ask at.... and they said take as many as you like!
So is speeduino picking up ecu comms or reading sensors?
Hourglass shape reminds me of those synthol body buildersFor posterity, bought this as broken condition with the 2x 12.0 batteries yesterday and low and behold I swapped a trigger and it is working fine
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That was quite a week for Milwaukee stuff.
sako243
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It is the ECU. TunerStudio is just a generic piece of software for chatting to various ECUs and programming them.
So you are running a diesel on a speeduino ECU? Sorry if I'm coming at this late, but if I'm reading this right you are using a speeduino ECU controlling injectors (and turbo?) set up(mapped?) and monitored via Tunerstudio ??
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No, 4.6l petrol, NA. Currently only with the downpipes on.
For speed this time around I'm using a plug in module called the Core 4 by DIY EFI which will be replaced with my own design. I've built the PCB and supporting electronic's around that core module (signal conditioning and drivers for various sensors).
It's running a wasted spark, banked injection set up (8 spark plugs and 8 injectors on the engine) due to a limitation in the software on Speeduino. It can't read the CAM hall effect sensor (well it can but doesn't understand it's pattern). Given it's petrol it doesn't really matter for now with the above setup and there's no major benefit for a 1983 vehicle to go sequential injection on it.
Speeduino (which covers both some hardware and the software that runs on the microcontroller) has configuration files that means that TunerStudio can talk to it. Thereby allowing TunerStudio to do all the spark, fuel tables and other configuration for the ECU.
Aside from that I'm using a pair of VW/Audi coil packs so they can be drive by logic level signals from Speeduino rather than having to build my own drivers into the ECU. It could be done but was quicker and easier this way.
There's a wideband O2 sensor to be installed once I do some more exhaust work to help tuning. In fact Tunerstudio can auto tune with that but I don't have any experience with it yet.
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Another pole pruner stick. Returned the first as the cable came off (slightly different design) and the last because the blades were twisting. Great tool when it works.
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I didn't get to use the plugs saw as intended due to the weather over the weekend. I did manage to have a play with it primarily doing the first cuts on the guide rails to trim the splinter guards but also a few more cuts to make a perfectly usable 18mm plywood board into much less useful strips with different batteries on.
Did the splinter guard trim with the Forge 8ah battery but went slowly before doing a couple of progressively faster cuts including a few angled just for curiosity. I then tried a 5ah battery on it and even though I wasn't really pushing it hard the saw felt like it was going to stall out but never did, might be the reason the kits come with 5.5ah High Outputs. Tried the 9ah and it was cutting as fast as the Forge 8ah had and wondered if I'd made a mistake in buying the Forge over a High Output battery. Went back to the Forge battery again, pushed it harder and found it would cut as fast as I could move along the board without any hint of stalling out so tried the 9ah to find it was cutting at it's pace and not mine, noticably slower but not slow if you catch my meaning. After wasting nearly half a board reducing it in both length and width into very useless but even strips of around a cm I was happy with the new tool.
I tried the 8ah Forge against the 9ah battery with the big High Power torque gun with a couple of suspension bolts in the vice first torquing up with the 9 and removing it with the 8 which it did with ease then doing it the opposite way around with 8 to tighten and 9 to remove and there was more resistance to break free but still fairly easy. After the saw and the torque gun the Forge still showed fully charged and the 9ah was down a bar.
BTW the 8ah Forge and 9ah battery feel the same in size and weight but the Forge definitely has more oomph to it. Not a scientific test but difference in performance is clear.
As a result of the testing/playing I realise how much I need a dust extractor as the sawdust that comes out the plunge saw very efficiently through the port with little escaping the blade enclosure made a big mess as it was blasted over the path and lawn where most of it stuck when it rained whilst I was in the garage playing with the torque gun. I do have a Milwaukee wet and dry vac but when attached to tools find the hose restrictive. A good mobile dust extractor will be next but not cordless. Festool bluetooth ones have got my interest and can't see anything that compares.
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The growing realisation that woodworking router core-box profile cutters are thus named for a very good reason.......
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Festool stuff is hard to beat I think.
I could probably make more money with one of those!
Just acquired some information, Some years ago i bought an old Universal sidevalve 6 cyl petrol engine for my vintage motor launch.
Guy i got it off said he had a manual but lost it.
Spent hours fruitlessly searching the interweb for info & manual for it posting on several forums.
Then this morning out of the blue i got an email from a gentleman in Germany who has a very similar engine in his boat and a manual. Turns out my slightly different lump is covered by the manual as well. He has already emailed me the tech specs sheet & settings which is gold dust!
Happy days!
Guy i got it off said he had a manual but lost it.
Spent hours fruitlessly searching the interweb for info & manual for it posting on several forums.
Then this morning out of the blue i got an email from a gentleman in Germany who has a very similar engine in his boat and a manual. Turns out my slightly different lump is covered by the manual as well. He has already emailed me the tech specs sheet & settings which is gold dust!
Happy days!
Olderisbetter
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Picked up a load of ikea boxes I needed to fill my recycled underbench shelf unit, I am feeling very organised
Olderisbetter
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I purchased an early moggy minor that only came with a log book the car was in good condition and not restored, A few years later a friends wife gave me a box of old car manuals and in same box were old MOTs and tax discs for my car, She got them at a car boot sale.
