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inexpensive accelerometer mod...

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 1:44 pm
by JaredKaragen
At $40, it's well worth it, and can easily be logged; I would imagine attaching it to the bulkhead [firewall] or just inside the ECU; could be usefull. Inexpensive and simple design. Anyone else dig it?

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:09 pm
by calvin
not me

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 3:56 pm
by Bindegal
Just how useful it is, really depends on what you want from it - and on the software available to analyze the data. /Allan

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 4:53 pm
by JaredKaragen
Maybe using it on an input for activation of whatever; pretty interesting though, might have to put some type of microcontroller inbetween for auto-level, etc... G-force load sensing maybe.... lots of ideas could come from this one.

Posted: Mon Feb 18, 2008 5:15 pm
by nate
There is certantly a lot you could do with a accelerometer, but I think the biggest issue would be the development time needed. Determining the feature set alone to compliment a device such as this would be rather time consuming. That's my .02c...