

| Subject: | 02 sensor |
| Date: | Mon, 1 Jul 1996 08:37:47 -0700 (PDT) |
Some folks expressed an interest in the 02 sensor thingy. I'll try to oblige here. >>I'm using the O2 sensor on anything I run I decided. Might as well know >>whats going on in that exhaust since I went out and paid the big money. >>Kind of wish I had built the meter myself, but I didn't know how at the time. > > Uhh, how? I thought about this and didn't really know how, but I >could use one of those goodies. I thought I had the old posts for this hanging around, but now I can't find them. Maybe they're on the computer at work. Basically you hook up a generic 02 sensor in the exhaust path, usually one that has a heating element in it and needs 12VDC. Then you measure DC volts with a voltmeter up front. My expensive Haltech meter has 16 led's, but all it is is a box with leds that measure DC volts. This from another guy............. >I got a little side pipe with M18 threads welded to one of the two J >pipes, bought a normal Bosch oxygen sensor ($36.00) and ran one wire from >it to the dashboard where I installed some cheapo digital voltmeter from >Radio Shack. I found in a Bosch FI book a calibration curve (voltage vs. >lambda) fora Bosch Oxygen sensor. SO I know at what voltage reading I'm >running at lamda = 1. Higher Voltages mean rich, lower ones lean. >I used this information to tune my FI system, like setting CO screw on >the AFM..... >It works great so far, but I'm wondering how I coud convert the voltage >reading into a direct lambda reading. Did you buy a gauge which can do that? (I brazed the nut on at the collector merge) And from another guy.............. >Just a word of wisdom to those of you playing around with your O2 >sensor meters... be sure to install them (the O2 sensor) BEFORE the >catalytic converter (if so equipped). Otherwise, all you are >reading is diddly-squat in terms of meaningful data. > >2 great books on O2 sensors/fuel injection are (info posted earlier >but what the heck): > >Fuel Injection and Engine Management by Charles Probst > >How To Tune and Modify Bosch Fuel Injection by Ben Watson If I find any more past posts, I'll get back to you, I'm sure someone had the voltmeter readings and their conversions somewhere. Maybe I'll have to get the book. Eug, '71
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