Affordable wideband solution
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Affordable wideband solution
I stumbled across this yesterday in my searches Wideband Air/Fuel Ratio Tuning
Anyone have any experience or tried one of these out?
Anyone have any experience or tried one of these out?
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You could have linked the the page with the price and a picture of it. Looks like a circuit board with only a few tracings and I'm assuming the components on the back. To me, based on the tracings I dont think there is enough going on that board to actually be a wideband controller. But I'm not an EE, I just occasionally play one (poorly) on the weekends.
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I already have an LC-1, Just throwing it out there and curious if anyone on here has tried one. On this page it appears as though someone with a NB has the setup working:BPSX D1 Digital Wideband WBO Controller (Controller+Enclosure+Display+LSU 4.2+Bung) | Wideband Air/Fuel Ratio Tuning
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for 27.99 for just the controller, I may give it a try vs. my lc1 just because I'm curious to know how well it works. Everything has to start somewhere, I'm sure megasquirt wasn't the big hit it is now when it was first introduced.
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The thing I like about the aem, is that it just works, and doesnt require you to have a heat sensative box mounted somewhere closish to your exhaust. I dont like the gauge and I dont like the lack of adjustability. As much as I complain about the LC1 dying if it gets hot at all, the one in my subie broke free from its mounts and was sitting on my down pipe for a while. It is quite melted looking now and takes longer than normal to heat up the sensor.
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The thing I like about the aem, is that it just works, and doesnt require you to have a heat sensative box mounted somewhere closish to your exhaust. I dont like the gauge and I dont like the lack of adjustability. As much as I complain about the LC1 dying if it gets hot at all, the one in my subie broke free from its mounts and was sitting on my down pipe for a while. It is quite melted looking now and takes longer than normal to heat up the sensor.
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I've had an lc-1 die on me after a year for no reason and innovate pretty much told me to get fucked we can't do anything for you, that left a bad taste in my mouth. Not to mention the lc-1 isn't even made by innovate, but instead somewhere overseas (probably China) and they don't know how to repair the unit and state that it is not serviceable.
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My innovate worked pretty much flawlessly for approximately 4 years. One day it randomly decided to take a crap on me. I called innovate and sent it to them, within a few weeks, no questions asked I had a either new or fixed unit. I sold it to a local friend and he has never had a single issue with it, meanwhile I havent had a single issue with my mtx-l whatsoever.