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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #510 on: June 06 2018, 04:47:44 PM »
I think E85 is considered un Amurican out here in oil country.  Nearest race fuel is 90 miles away if they still sell it.  I'm with you on alky kits but I don't see a choice.  Price by the barrel appears to be ridiculous for anything.  I think I am screwed.
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #511 on: June 06 2018, 05:06:00 PM »
You're between a rock and a hard place. I'd be replacing the alky pump once a year...and solder every effen connection.

My car rarely goes into boost on the street...belie ve it or not...so Erics street chip is all I need. I cruise the car...and that's it. When I'm at the track...all hell breaks loose. On a race day I park up at the 1/4 mile marker by myself and talk very little to anyone. I don't like being distracted. The Armdrop events are fun and relaxing. On a race day...leave me alone. I'm Jekyll and Hyde.
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #512 on: June 06 2018, 05:26:40 PM »
For sure, everything is soldered.

Most good racers I know have at least two personalities
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #513 on: June 06 2018, 10:26:06 PM »
Proooopane. ;)
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #514 on: July 05 2018, 01:25:17 PM »
I’ve been working on my arduino powered ethanol content gauge. By far the worst part has been getting the lcd to display. The display I bought requires 7 wires for connecting then 3 for the backlight. Got it all soldered up and was testing and I forgot to heatshrink a resistor, and of course it’s connected to 5v with a ground next to it. I moved the wires while testing and it all went dead.

I’ve got another arduino and 2 different displays coming to play with. These are both analog displays and only require 4 wires. Should save some time.

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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #515 on: July 05 2018, 01:42:56 PM »
7 wires... HD44780 type character display or a surplus cell phone unit?
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #516 on: July 05 2018, 01:52:55 PM »
1602 lcd without the i2c module.
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #517 on: July 05 2018, 01:53:57 PM »
So yes HD44780 type
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #518 on: July 05 2018, 02:01:13 PM »
Any chance you two guys could dumb this down?
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #519 on: July 05 2018, 02:17:36 PM »
Brad
Arduino is a microcontrolle r. It's fully programmable with analog and digital inputs/outputs. So if you can wire it and program it, you can do damn near anything with one. There is one project doing batchfire/waste spark on a 4 cylinder car. All out of a $10 board.


Basically mine is going to read the gm flex fuel content sensor, send the values to a display (like a gauge), and possibly convert the signal (hz to volts) and spit out a 0-5v to my logger.



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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #520 on: July 05 2018, 03:11:56 PM »
THAT's better. Now...how bout a pic or a link of this gizmo.
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #521 on: July 05 2018, 03:47:27 PM »
The 128x32 OLED displays are sexy, just a couple of bucks on Aliexp and there are a few libraries around...
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« Reply #522 on: July 05 2018, 03:56:37 PM »
The 128x32 OLED displays are sexy, just a couple of bucks on Aliexp and there are a few libraries around...

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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #523 on: July 05 2018, 03:56:53 PM »
How about this?
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Re: nocooler's firechicken thread
« Reply #524 on: July 05 2018, 04:03:17 PM »
We like pics!
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