Trouble Maker Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Cliff's notes. Provides feed back that can be directly related to cylinder pressure and therefore can be interpreted into knock and misfire detection. All via the spark plug which means bye-bye crappy knock sensors that can pick up other noises. This also means that those parameters can be sensed, and therefore ignition and fuel trimmed on each individual cylinder to correct for any problems, all non-intrusively. The spark is also very high energy, and very quick, ignites the mixture much quicker, leading to more ignition retard. http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pbriggs/SmartFireP01.jpg http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pbriggs/SmartFireP02.jpg http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pbriggs/SmartFireP03.jpg http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pbriggs/SmartFireP04.jpg http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/pbriggs/SmartFireP05.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ranger_Man Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 being able to tune each cylinder would definately be a big plus. definately looks cool graemlins/thumb.gif Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rotarded1647545491 Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 Originally posted by Beer Guy: being able to tune each cylinder would definately be a big plus. definately looks cool graemlins/thumb.gif What are cylinders?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiG BeN Posted December 27, 2003 Report Share Posted December 27, 2003 and it can be yours for the low low price of 22,475$ hey..at least it includes on-site training. adrenaline research Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desperado Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 This is the technology that TIG welders have been using for ever. There is never any contact with a TIG torch, the ARC is established by a high voltage pulse across the electrode to the work (material being welded). The ionizes the air (Argon actually) and the torch ignites. This si actually really cool technology even if it is old. I wish I would have thought of it. I will say this though, with the $22 grand price tag. doing away with all the processors and extra stuff, and just building an ignition that fires like this. Especially with a DC source to each plug, would not be difficult or overly expensive. HMMMM gets me thinking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trouble Maker Posted December 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 As with almost every new techonolgy the initial price tag will be very high and only avaliable in small amounts or in higher end offerings. As time progresses, the initial investement is recouped, and ways are found to make this techonolgy less expensive to produce, the price will begin to drop. More people will buy it and it will be used in more applications, droping the price even more. While $22k seems like alot, how much were the first CD burners, how much were the first plasma TVs (even though I stand by the fact the current ones are still crap, especially for the money), thoes are just easy examples that most of us can probably remember. I wonder how much the first fuel injection system cost. smile.gif Desparado, while the idea is what will make them the money, the controls behind this is what makes it beautiful. Being able to interpert the feedback you get from the system into useable information is the tricky part, not making the ingition system itself. Although even without the feed back you should still be able to retard timing due to the intensity of the spark (which makes the flame front move much quicker). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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