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Test Harness for Air/Fuel Ratio read while driving.



Where's George? Didn't he have a running issue from an A/F meter? It is mA,
not a lot of current to measure. George, you gassed out laying under
Blackie's fuel lines or what???? 

Cathy


On 8:39:13 pm 01/16/06 Don Walter <dswalterwi@gmail.com> wrote:
> That's what I'm thinking but what I don't know is if it will give any
> more or usable data while driving rather than just sitting in the
> driveway.
> On 1/16/06, Nate Mellom <doubt@inwave.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Don,
> >  I don't see why you couldn't hook up the DPR test harness and get
> >  longer test leads, and run it through to your interior.  Get a
> >  small digital multimeter and Velcro it to your dash. Or something
> >  like that! Nate
> >
> >
> >  Don Walter wrote:
> > >  I know about those devices.  They measure voltage.  The output
> >  of the test
> > >  harness is in mA.  I was just wondering if anyone had ever
> >  thought of trying
> > >  this.
> > >
> > >  On 1/16/06, Rick Kellner <rfkellner@snet.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Don, do a search on 'Stoichiometric' gauge or meter and you will
> > >> come up with a few gauges for monitoring a/f.
> > >> Here is one:
> > >>
> > >> http://www.gadgetseller.com/gauges/techinfo.htm
> > >>
> > >> Rick.
> > >>
> > >> -----Original Message-----
> > >> From: scirocco-l-bounces+rfkellner=snet.net@scirocco.org
> > >> [mailto:scirocco-l-bounces+rfkellner=snet.net@scirocco.org] On
> > >> Behalf Of Don Walter
> > >> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 12:55 PM
> > >> To: Scirocco List
> > >> Subject: Test Harness for Air/Fuel Ratio read while driving.
> > >>
> > >> I had a thought the other day when my son and I were trying to
> > >> figure out
> > >> why after his car starts to warm up it is losing power
> > >> (sometimes).  We were
> > >> going to install the test harness again to check the A/F mA to
> > >> see if that
> > >> was still okay.  Then, I began to think maybe we could extend
> > >> the wires to
> > >> inside the car so that we could monitor it while he was driving
> > >> then it could be checked while under load or other conditions.
> > >> Has any one ever tried this?  Would it give any different
> > >> results than just increasing the
> > >> RPM's sitting in the driveway.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
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> > >  1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
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> Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
> 1984 8V Audi 4000s (lastest addition)
> 1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
> http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
> 1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
> 1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
> 1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
> 1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
> 1969 Beetle (sold)
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