I have been busy playing with circuits and did some preliminary tests using an LED as the light source, which turned out to be too dim to be practical so I moved onto a Xenon timing light. Bought a cheap Actron today for a test and it is flashing! I took a video and will try to upload later.
I am using the RPM magnetic sensor by the harmonic balancer as a trigger for the testing. Once I have the proof of concept completed, I will install an rpm sensor in the IP timing port for the final product.
I want to establish accuracy of the timing light and whether there is any propagation delay and have a few questions about the timing marks.
The red arrow is pointing to the magnetic sensor.
yellow line is pointing to the trigger tooth (with green paint on top of tooth to make it easier to see). Is the tooth TDC at zero degrees?
Is blue line pointing to 10 degrees ATDC
Is green line pointing to 20 degrees ATDC?
