Re: O2 sensors Easy Fix?

From: Chris lang (langcj@clarkson.edu)
Date: Sun Sep 13 1998 - 00:50:09 EDT


Hey jon what do you plan on doing about inspection here in NY without a cat?

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Steiger <stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu>
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Date: Saturday, September 12, 1998 8:20 PM
Subject: Re: DML: O2 sensors Easy Fix?

>On Sat, 12 Sep 1998, jim miller wrote:
>
>> Insted of trying to re-invent the wheel cant one just remove the cat if
that is
>> what you are trying to do, leave the sensor after the converter in the
pipe, and
>> find the correct value resistor to insert in series or parallel depending
on
>> whether the voltage needs to be higher or lower after the cat a and the
computer
>> will read a voltage an exact percentage higher or lower which ever is
correct and
>> will never know the cat is not working. The voltage will vary in step
with the
>> other sensors. Seems like a simple solution to me.
>
>
> That's exactly the solution that Sean Meldrum was using for his
>CKC (Curiosity Killed the Cat) module. A simple voltage divider
>circuit consisting of two resistors which reduces the downstream
>voltage output to about a tenth of the original value.
>
> I'm basing my module on Sean's, but I don't want to retain the
>downstream O2 sensor because I'm going to 3" pipe, and I don't feel
>like paying someone to weld in a bung. Also, this version is a
>lot more fun. :-)
>
> -Jon-
>
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