Newbie to this forum with desire to participate
Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 11:34 pm
Hi guys
I would like to begin by saying how much I admire what you are doing here. It takes a hole different type of person to share the results of his hard work, sleepless nights and time stolen from families. This project itself is an amazing example of people rebelling against monopolization of EMS manufacture ( like Linux vs. some companies not to be named here).
I am new to this forum, but not to Mechanical nor Electronic HW. I am definitely way lower in the food chain than most of the developers in here, but I have done my share of messing with electronics to be willing to become a tester of the system.
I am Graduated Mechanical Engineer who likes playing with electronics for hobby ( had enough time to mess extensively with SMD components) . I have in my garage 2 (potentially 3*) engines bugging me. One is Honda F23A7 (2.3l 4 cylinder vtech) from Shuttle (odyssey in Japan). Second one is the reason I was looking into custom EMS - Renault L7X ( 3.0 v6 24v DOHC) from Laguna. I will be making a testing rig for this engine to be used in a future project.
I have spent quite a few evenings reading through this forum and have learned alot. I intend to use my Renault V6 engine with FreeEMS. I do know Jaguar is in its sort of Beta and boards are not available to Users yet. But here is the trick - A good friend of mine has a small OEM pcb multilayer Manufacturing factory here in Bulgaria. I cant make any promises but might be able to arrange a batch of PCB's. This friend of mine is very competent in programming matters and unbelievably friendly and helpful. Will talk to him in the morning and IF he has an occasional minute to spare I bet he will be glad to participate in this project.
But first things first - Will be building Frame for testing rig for the engine when time allows. Until after that would be grateful for as much info on the Jaguar PCb problems and revisions as possible. Still reading through the forum and educating myself on programming part of the project.
I have a Question regarding Jaguar: I want to use 6 channels for Injection and 3 channels for waster spark ignition setup. My question is what coils do you use in your projects. Any advantages/disadvantages and reliability feedback would be much appreciated ( Renault originals are cr*p).
Fred - are you in Spain??? Has this thought crossed your mind:
Using some of the input/outputs to rig something even more unique: running both Petrol injection and LPG injection by same EMS. Using same Injection channels for both, but using a relay for injectors common positive lead to choose which injectors to run. its quite a bit more complex than that , but its just a thought worth mentioning.
Keep up the good work guys and from now on will try to participate as much as I can.
* Have half dismantled older Renault J7T ( 2.2 straight 4) - all complete that requires only a head gasket and head skimming - might run some tests on it as well as its a bullet proof engine until some monkey drives the car and overheats it for a few times and even though its with EFi with 4 injectors - they all run on one channel.
I would like to begin by saying how much I admire what you are doing here. It takes a hole different type of person to share the results of his hard work, sleepless nights and time stolen from families. This project itself is an amazing example of people rebelling against monopolization of EMS manufacture ( like Linux vs. some companies not to be named here).
I am new to this forum, but not to Mechanical nor Electronic HW. I am definitely way lower in the food chain than most of the developers in here, but I have done my share of messing with electronics to be willing to become a tester of the system.
I am Graduated Mechanical Engineer who likes playing with electronics for hobby ( had enough time to mess extensively with SMD components) . I have in my garage 2 (potentially 3*) engines bugging me. One is Honda F23A7 (2.3l 4 cylinder vtech) from Shuttle (odyssey in Japan). Second one is the reason I was looking into custom EMS - Renault L7X ( 3.0 v6 24v DOHC) from Laguna. I will be making a testing rig for this engine to be used in a future project.
I have spent quite a few evenings reading through this forum and have learned alot. I intend to use my Renault V6 engine with FreeEMS. I do know Jaguar is in its sort of Beta and boards are not available to Users yet. But here is the trick - A good friend of mine has a small OEM pcb multilayer Manufacturing factory here in Bulgaria. I cant make any promises but might be able to arrange a batch of PCB's. This friend of mine is very competent in programming matters and unbelievably friendly and helpful. Will talk to him in the morning and IF he has an occasional minute to spare I bet he will be glad to participate in this project.
But first things first - Will be building Frame for testing rig for the engine when time allows. Until after that would be grateful for as much info on the Jaguar PCb problems and revisions as possible. Still reading through the forum and educating myself on programming part of the project.
I have a Question regarding Jaguar: I want to use 6 channels for Injection and 3 channels for waster spark ignition setup. My question is what coils do you use in your projects. Any advantages/disadvantages and reliability feedback would be much appreciated ( Renault originals are cr*p).
Fred - are you in Spain??? Has this thought crossed your mind:
Using some of the input/outputs to rig something even more unique: running both Petrol injection and LPG injection by same EMS. Using same Injection channels for both, but using a relay for injectors common positive lead to choose which injectors to run. its quite a bit more complex than that , but its just a thought worth mentioning.
Keep up the good work guys and from now on will try to participate as much as I can.
* Have half dismantled older Renault J7T ( 2.2 straight 4) - all complete that requires only a head gasket and head skimming - might run some tests on it as well as its a bullet proof engine until some monkey drives the car and overheats it for a few times and even though its with EFi with 4 injectors - they all run on one channel.