Race Technology DL1

[dark_helmet]

Has anybody installed one of these on their car?

http://www.race-technology.com/dl1_2_27.html

Specifically anyone who has done it on a 986/996 engine? Any hints would be appreciated

Thanks

[Henry-F]

You don`t install it on the engine, it sits in the car & takes a feed from a GPS receiver as well as accelerometers that measure forward and sideways forces. This allows the logger to download a map of the circuit into a pc as well as giving you lap times etc.

A cheap way of fitting a data logger into a car and you can easily move it from car to car. They have been around for a while now.

Henry

[GreenV8S]

You have the option of giving it a tacho feed if you want it to record revs.

[fastfreddy]

You can either connect it to the tacho feed or an ignition feed (HT or switched negative signal to a coil). I've had one on a 996 and I found it easiest to tap into the ignition wire at the engine end (i.e. one of the coils).
Also it's very easy to tap into the throttle pot so you can check to see if you really are flat through that corner...

[MTBR]

Start off by just using the data generated by the GPS and G meters. Fit a seperate power switch so you can power it up after you have started the engine. Cranking the engine can screw up the data.
Learn to calibrate it and make sense of the basic data before adding more sensors / channels.

Once you have the hang of using the basic data, an RPM feed is usually the next data stream to add, although this depends entirely on what you want to find out.

Note. Not all SD cards will work properly with the DL1, so you need to check it all out before wasting valuable testing time.

M.

[dark_helmet]

Excellent advice guys, running it standalone first seems like the best plan

Cheers

[996TT_STEVO]

I run the AX-22 unit, great and easy to use!

[phelix]

There also a support forum on their website.