Printable Version of Topic

Posted by: Series9 Oct 21 2006, 11:28 AM

I'm looking at CO analyzers.

What do you have? recommend? cost?

I'm sure a certain percentage of my business will involve setting up carbs , so I'm gonna need the sniffer.

Something portable would be nice.

Posted by: TimT Oct 21 2006, 08:29 PM

A good high quality WB O2 sendor would be fine!

We have a few four gas analysers in the shop, but for most jobs a WB is fine.

For the WBs we have MoTec and FJO and some of the newer lower cost units like PLX. I personally have two Tech Edge units..

Posted by: TimT Oct 21 2006, 08:33 PM

Oh and before anyone says WBO2s dont measure CO.

They do... indirectly... there are relationships between Co O2 Nox etc that are very consistent

Posted by: Series9 Oct 23 2006, 07:05 PM

QUOTE(TimT @ Oct 21 2006, 08:29 PM)

Posted by: anthony Oct 23 2006, 07:09 PM

Innovate makes one:

http://www.innovatemotorsports.com/xcart/customer/product.php?productid=16141&cat=250&page=1

Posted by: Series9 Oct 23 2006, 07:16 PM

I've never seen one of those. Interesting.

Posted by: root Oct 23 2006, 07:39 PM

I've had an LM-1 (innovation) for over a year now installed in my stealth 914.
I mounted it in the glove box on velcro so I can whipit out when I want to slip it
into some other tail pipe. I have it programed to average the A/F ratio then output it to an LED A/F gauge on the front of the glove box door. Don't know what I'd do with out it and a CHT gauge on the dashboard!

Posted by: TimT Oct 23 2006, 07:47 PM

http://www.plxdevices.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?preadd=action&key=00WBM300&reference=/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi%3Fsearch%3Daction%26keywords%3Dall%26searchstart%3D0%26template%3DPDGTemplates/Header_Footer/SearchResult.html%26category%3D00WB

We have a few of these, they are workhorses, rugged,dependable etc. Use a relatively inexpensive Bosch sensor.

http://www.fjoracing.com/products/WBAFR/

We also have on of these, ours is an older model which uses an NTK sensor, which when needing replacement will set you back about $150, as opposed to $40 or so for Bosch sensor

http://www.motec.com/products/plm/plm.htm

The quality of this one is without reproach, but it is quite expensive. $1200 or so. th FJO was $800, and the PLX we have was $279 (when we purchased)

http://www.wbo2.com

I also have two of these wide bands. I built them myself for the hell of it. They work as well as our MoTec and 4 gas units.

The Innovate is also very popular with the Pelican crowd