[F500] data acquisition systems

[Jamie Clark]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Shipp, Paul (P.) wrote:

> Just to follow on from the last thread, I also have a Mychron 2 but use the
> download capability and then look at the data on a lap top.  Very useful for
> looking at the clutching and also logs peak temps (I have EGT and water)
> each lap.  Having any kind of acquisition is good but would suggest that you
> may want to look at a lower cost system and see how much you actually end up
> using it before going in for some thing top line, even with just a couple of
> channels you can spend a lot of time looking at the data and as soon as you
> add steering, throttle, G sensors etc the time to fully understand what you
> are looking at goes up exponentially, and then there is the question of what
> you do once you have seen the data.  Can be very easy to tune yourself out
> of a good setup by just looking at data and not analyzing what you feel when
> actually driving the car as well.  Although I log every sessions I don't
> always have time or remember to go back and look at the data.  It is good
> for winter bench racing though.  Just a few thoughts.

Agreed!  The best part of data logging is track map.  I am sure Evo3 has
track map feature as long it logs steering, throttle, G-force (long/lat),
mph, rpm (and few others).  I have Motec on my FM (Formula Mazda) and I
always use track map which shows throttle position, braking, min and max
speed, rpm levels.  Easy to spot area of improvements in track map.

        Jamie Clark