If you still like
toys, you will love this. If you are a car enthusiast, how
could you resist having an
accelerometer, instant reporting of torque and horsepower, slope
and angle readings, global positioning, etc., displayed on a
variety of formats, with a recording capability? Just to
mention a few things?
Here's a short (but
high-resolution) movie that gives a little bit of info about the
unit:
Movie (Broadband
Recommended - 53MB)
After several months I took a look
at the cumulative statistics:
Must have slipped on the RPM there - a bit high
Power and Torque in line with expectations at the limits
Acceleration G's (Forward) - I'm not much for fast take-offs so this is no surprise.
Acceleration G's (Reverse) - I distinctly recall this one - a deer jumped in front of me and I put the pedal to the floor. The car stuck like it was glued.
Lateral G (L) - There's a nice sweeper near the house, This number is just shy of what C&D got in their tests. This was with the Eagle F1's
I don't remember the Lateral G (R) but
that's a decent number
The Lat's and Lon's are just local places - the farthest
N/S/E/W traveled lately. My extremes are considerably more in
every direction. GPS map users can have some fun figuring out
where these places are...
There are lots of incredibly steep hills out here. These
Slope numbers are on a nose-bleed street in town.
The Angle V (L & R) are degrees per second
and correspond to fast moves through sharp corners.
As more time goes by the Learning Status
has slowly shown a longer progress bar for the various measures.
Plenty of speed pulses, and nearly maxed out for
distance and 3D learning.
Here are some images showing the
demo screens that I captured during my bench testing of the unit
before it was installed into the car.
