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Megasquit Jargon.
Chippy - 2/12/06 at 12:00 AM

Hi, does anybody know of a link to a dictionary of CAPITAL letter jargon, ie, VR, MAP etc, etc, etc. Its doing my head in. All I can say about MS is it certainly aint people friendly. Thanks, Ray

Peteff - 2/12/06 at 12:08 AM

Is that like really bad diarrhoea? I know MAP is manifold absolute pressure and TPS is throttle position sensor and the VR sensor is variable reluctor which reads from the toothed wheel for megasquirt with added "r" You have to read stuff to find out what they all mean, it's no good knowing the abbreviations but not what they do though,I'm ploughing through them myself at the moment but it's hard going with an old brain and this whisky isn't helping much either.

[Edited on 2/12/06 by Peteff]

martyn_16v - 2/12/06 at 09:57 AM

quote:
Originally posted by Chippy
All I can say about MS is it certainly aint people friendly.


I wouldn't say that at all. I do appreciate that there is a fairly steep learning curve at first but once you've taken the time to do a bit of reading then the userbase is fantastically helpful - I'd say a good 70% of MS installs wouldn't be running without the help of the community. As long as you appear to have made some effort to try and research before you ask a question it is usually well recieved on the msefi forum, what they generally won't do is hand everything on a plate to you, MS is a do it *yourself* project after all, and a degree of understanding is essential to a good end product.

If you get stuck don't be afraid to ask here as well as on msefi, there's quite a few experienced 'squirters (f'nar f'nar) here willing to help. My advice for the thing as a whole is to break it down into manageable chunks - print out the wiring diagram and go around it one compnent at a time - what is it, what does it do, does my engine already have one I can use, etc etc. It really isn't as daunting as it first seems if you do it like that.

To start you off:
CLT - coolant temp
MAT/IAT - mass air temp/intake air temp
TPS - throttle position sensor
O2 -oxygen/lambda sensor
WBO2 - wideband O2 sensor

[Edited on 2/12/06 by martyn_16v]

Chippy - 2/12/06 at 10:56 PM

Peteff unfortunately not using EDIS, so that page no good. As my engine is Ford V6 running on the stock loom, I am converting MS to work using all the ford wiring and sensors, including the Hall efect distributor, by building an adaptor board to accomodate them, but thanks anyway.
martyn-16v I rather think that you have made my case for me, if the whole thing was aproached in a more people friendly way, then you wouldn't need to ask questions, or at least not so many. .
Thanks guys, at least i have found out what a few of the capitaly mean. Regards, Ray