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Technical => Triggering => Topic started by: GintsK on February 22, 2008, 11:13:28 AM

Title: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on February 22, 2008, 11:13:28 AM
Hello!
Does VEMS really support this kind of engine?

Currently 90Ã,° V6 Masseratti. 90Ã,°-150Ã,°-90Ã,°-150Ã,°-90Ã,°-150Ã,° firings.
Distributor cap for this cost same as VEMS unit  ;D

60-2 and wasted spark in my mind.

Gints.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on February 22, 2008, 12:30:13 PM
That's really a Wiki question, I've puzzled over odd-fire for quite a while and decided to pretend that it didnt exist until I absolutely had to...
No idea how you'd configure the ignition offsets TBH.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on February 22, 2008, 01:00:34 PM
I want perform some bench tests.
1.1 branch have h[1] reference tooth table. 150Ã,°=25teeth 90Ã,°=15teeth. So 0-15-40-55-80-95.
In addition I have  o-scope with couple of channels for logic signals. Never try them before...
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on February 22, 2008, 02:32:25 PM
dont forget to put the numbers in h[1] from the highest to lowest (to match the injector and ignition events)

Rob
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: jonnyboost on March 17, 2008, 01:47:05 PM
Hey GintsK, how are you getting on with your VEMS install? I have an oddfire engine I also want to run with VEMS but require guidance with the setup. I am interested in how you are doin.

Cheers John.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on March 17, 2008, 03:48:15 PM
Jonny, I havent forgotten about the answer, just trying to get a definate answer from the dev team.  All I've got so far is "it should be posssible" but they tend to like to see scope traces of the crank and cam signal before they'll suggest much.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 17, 2008, 04:06:05 PM
I was trying odd fire on the bench. Using 60-2 and camsync signal. It works only partly.
Main problem is lost of ignition when some level of dwell periods overlapping is reached.
Problem is dwell and rpm dependent. Less dwell time allow more rpms. But for reaching 7000 dwell becomes too short. When ignition cuts, nothing but restart helps.

Problem can be some misconfiguration - I can't found any documentation regarding odd-fire.
Odd fire selection do not change anything noticeable.

Ignition events and dwell times at normal operation looks perfect.

Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on March 17, 2008, 08:13:31 PM
Can you do some logs of this and we'll get an Odd fire page up on the Wiki and see if we can't prompt some cleverness.

The overlapping dwell code should take care of the collisions - I guess you're running 1.1 firmware - but which subversion?

Rob
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 17, 2008, 11:00:18 PM
My tests was using 1.1.27.
No idea how to configure 1.0.73 for odd fire.

I have no log from it. Must repeat.  And I have msq only http://www.vems.hu/files/GintsK/odd_fire_test005.msq. But wiki issue reports must be with config and tables. Msq is using Megatune from this (http://vems.hu/download/megatune/VemsMT1.1.27beta2.zip) package.

During fail all injector channels still works, but no spark on all three  (wasted spark) chanels.

For full report need:
config
tables
camsync tooth
log file.

I will try to find some spare time to do it.

Glad for someone else interested! :)
Gints

Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on March 17, 2008, 11:50:35 PM
If you could repeat the test that would be cool, I hope to get some time over easter to experiment.
Forget all the wiki report stuff, I'll put the page together with the info, having the config and tables will be good, but the key bit is the datalog as I can then kick off a discussion behind the scenes.

Rob
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 18, 2008, 10:09:59 AM
Before repeating: i do not understand CAM sync, engine phase at next primary trigger setting.

Lets say my missing gap on 60-2 is 16 teeth before TDC , trigger tooth 6 and cam signal rising edge is some teeth before missing gap. What value then must be CAM sync, engine phase at next primary trigger?
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on March 18, 2008, 01:22:10 PM
Okay I'm planning on putting a couple of hours into this tonight
Looking at the http://www.vems.hu/wiki/index.php?page=GenBoard%2FUnderDevelopment%2FFirmwareChanges
It seems that the previous versions (after 1.1.18 had ignition faults that required a restart - which sounds similar to what you've said happened here) So I am wondering if we should try:
http://www.vems.hu/download/v3/firmware/v3_firmware_1.1.33.zip

I've asked what engine phase at next primary trigger means. I'll see if we get something that I can write-up in a sensible manner.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: jonnyboost on March 19, 2008, 02:16:12 PM
Well im glad you both know what your talking about because I havent got a clue!! Im holding on for a version of VEMS to run rather than whats available as I like the concept. Hope its not too much of a pain in the ass to figure out. I'll be on here as often as possible checking any progress.

Cheers John.
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: [email protected] on March 19, 2008, 06:50:47 PM
Don't worry mate, soon as anything good comes along I'll be letting you know :D
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 23, 2008, 11:37:35 PM
Here is zipped folder with 1.1.33 msq, config.txt , tables.txt and log file: at beginning spark is at max rpm and later - no. http://www.vems.hu/files/GintsK/OddFire/OddFireIssue1.zip

In addition some observations:

with 3.71ms logged dwell ignition cuts
0Ã,° - 4200Rpm
30Ã,° - 3200Rpm
42Ã,° - 2600Rpm


with 2.43ms logged dwell ignition cuts
0Ã,° - 6800Rpm
30Ã,° - 4700Rpm
42Ã,° - 4000Rpm

Gints
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: Jorgen on March 24, 2008, 12:25:04 AM
Hi,

What kind of ignition do you simulate on the bench? The H[2] table looks a bit wierd: h[2]=02 12 22 00 11 21 40 60

Unless something changed again It should read 00 10 20 00 10 20 for a wastefire setup driven from ign 0-3. I doubt that this is the cause of the problems but it should be corrected, MT can't be used to correct this, it must be done from in tables.txt.

Jörgen
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 24, 2008, 09:30:20 AM
It is wasted spark. In MT it looks so:
(http://www.vems.hu/files/GintsK/OddFire/h%5B1%5D.jpg)(http://www.vems.hu/files/GintsK/OddFire/h%5B2%5D.jpg)
Title: Re: Odd fire?
Post by: GintsK on March 24, 2008, 11:23:08 AM
I can't find a tool what works for tables/config download in 1.1.33.
*.bat files don't like y[] strings. And there is some GUI versions...

Any suggestions?

Gints