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- From: welty@cabot.balltown.cma.COM (richard welty)
- Subject: Re: oxygen sensor
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.003222.20990@cabot.balltown.cma.COM>
- Organization: New York State Institute for Sebastian Cabot Studies
- References: <26055@oasys.dt.navy.mil> <1992Oct7.210906.18481@cabot.balltown.cma.COM> <BvvHJJ.9qK@ssesco.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 00:32:22 GMT
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- to answer this posting directly (i've already followed up a followup to
- this one.) ...
-
- In article <BvvHJJ.9qK@ssesco.com> elmquist@pez.ssesco.com (Chris Elmquist) writes:
- >So, there are only a couple different O2 sensor designs ? Do they all
- >exhibit the same O2 vs. Vout curve ? I suspect that mine (in my '87
- >Integra) may be failing and causing the rotten idle problem I've had
- >for a couple years(!).
-
- it wouldn't be a suprise if this were the case.
-
- >I'm wondering if I can disconnect the sensor and fake a nominal Vout
- >using a battery and a couple resistors (or a pot)... If they have a 0v
- >to 1v range, can I feed .5v say, into the computer in place of the O2 sensor
- >and see if the idle behaves differently (better maybe) ? Or is the output
- >of the O2 sensor much more dynamic and related to engine RPM such that a
- >constant Vout (or Vin to the computer) would really dork up the idle...?
-
- well, what you're talking about doing is taking a nice feedback system,
- removing the downstream sensor, and putting fake data in the feedback
- loop. my recommendation of grounding the wire is a similar sort of
- suggestion, but at least you take the motor to a safe, rich condition
- that won't do any damage; you should get a reasonably smooth idle from
- this trick. sending in 0.5v which is intended to be 'mid range' will
- set the fuel mixture to some arbitrary level which is not necessarily
- relevant to what is going on inside the motor. it probably won't hurt
- for short periods, but isn't it just easier to ground the sucker?
-
- >It would be nice to diagnosis the O2 sensor as bad before trying to pull
- >it out...
-
- quite
-
- richard
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