Thread: plx wideband

just ordered one, seems like a great product for the price, see what you guys think...

http://www.plxdevices.com/products/dm5/afrsmcombo/

The way the boxes link is w/e, don't really care about anything else except the wideband, but it's nice to know you can add onto it, check out the DM-100 and DM-200.

we recommend these to our customers all the time. great company.

http://www.14point7.com/JAW/JAW.htm

Read this; cheaper and MUCH better!

damn you, i coulda used this info like 20 minutes ago...naw it's cool, I'll end up getting the dm200 down the road and running it for oil pressure fp etc.

looks like a good product

what's the deal w/ calibrating a wideband? plx says that you don't have to with their product.

That looks very interesting, how does that work?

Most wideband controllers need to reference the oxygen level outside to give you an accurate reading, and the set up of that is called calibration. I wonder why you don't have to do it with theirs.

Does that one come with the sensor itself too? If so, it's a pretty good deal!

If I end up replacing this LC-1 I might look into a different one like that.

Danja is correct. To ge the best reading, you should calibrate the wideband for elevation, but this is a negligible difference. However as the sensor ages, you can recalibrate it for greater life. The site I posted explains it well. When you calibrate the sensor and tell the unit that it's in pure oxygen, it brings the sensor back to 0. Otherwise, it could read rich or lean in pure oxygen. Once the calibration value reaches a certain point, you know it is time for a new one. That kit on 14point7.com is less than $150 installed. I have been running it for a while now, and I love it. You cannot beat it; it uses the same sensor as most widebands. Open source software is great for tailoring your applications or fixing the individual problems with your application. Others will leave you stuck. Sorry to thread jack, but I love this thing. And everyone should be lucky to enough to save a ton of money. Here is a link to the pic of the gauge installed in my car.

http://img211.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dscf0005vi7.jpg