Speed pulser and MSII extra

[TBI_Master]

My car has a speed pulser already installed. Can I feed those pulses to any free input in my MSII/Extra and get either the pulses/sec, or the time between one pulse and the next one?

[TBI_Master]

What happen is that I am sending the whole data stream to one microprocessor, and that micro is tied to a LCD where I see all the important data of my engine.
I was just thinking if there was a spare counter/capture module in the MS controller. If not, then I will wire the speed sensor to the micro and it will compute and report the speed straight to the LCD. The problem would be when i connect the laptop instead of the LCD, I would not have the car speed.

[jsmcortina]

There isn't an existing feature to do this, but the source is available if you wish to add it yourself.

James

[fixmann]

Hi
One solution is to use a fequency to voltconverter.
This way you can use ADC6 or ADC7 to capture speed.


Øyvind

[16vboost]

How does MS3 accept VSS pulses? Does it have extra hardware on the daughter card? I thought it just had to be tied to a spare digital input?

-Alex

[TBI_Master]

Hi
One solution is to use a fequency to voltconverter.
This way you can use ADC6 or ADC7 to capture speed.


Øyvind

I like this idea. I do have a PCB that does exactly that...Thanks!

[Matt Cramer]

How does MS3 accept VSS pulses? Does it have extra hardware on the daughter card? I thought it just had to be tied to a spare digital input?

-Alex

You can either use a voltage based signal to an analog input or a square wave signal to a digital input.