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help nailing down injector dead time(scope pics)

Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 8:45 pm
by ashford
im having trouble finding the right opening time for my injectors(summit racing 42#injectors, 12.8 ohm, they appear to be made by lucas). doing the cahnge from 2 to 4 squirts isn't working at idle because the injectors never fully open on 4 squirts. i have an idle pw around 1.8 - 2.2 ms and cruise 1.7 -2.5 at 4 squirts, after a full year at running 4 squirt and testing the other day i switched to 2 and need to retune.

the injector dead time to volts is off(volt changes affect afr)

when i first installed about a year ago i went into injector test mode and set it to .9ms and got nothing out of them, 1.0ms would get the tip wet and 1.1 would make a small spray this was at battery voltage @12.2, but since then i got a silly scope and took a few pics for you to look at.

i used a .1 ohm resistor for amplitude(voltage topped out at .1volt). i also notice at idle at 4 squirts the current never peaked. test was done @14.3v
im having a hard time interpreting the dead time either .7, .89, .936 or 1.127 not too sure where to take time readings.

Re: help nailing down injector dead time(scope pics)

Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:22 am
by myk777
There seems to be alot of noise in your scope pics so it's hard to tell. Here's a topic where I was doing the same thing, might be of some help?

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=32048

Re: help nailing down injector dead time(scope pics)

Posted: Sun Oct 12, 2008 5:08 pm
by ashford
i followed the instructions for cal dt
i used a 45ml syringe attacted to the injector with a hose

did the flow tests and came up with

11.9v
4ms 26ml
6ms 40.5ml

13.3v
3ms 19.5ml
6ms 42ml

14.9v
3ms 21ml
5.5ms 39.5ml

i came up with
11.9v .62ms dead time
13.3 .4ms dead time
14.9v .162 dead time

i dont think this is right and i used .8ms but however i calculated a .133ms/volt battery correction and that helped out alot with varing afrs.