premixing giving an improper wideband reading
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premixing giving an improper wideband reading
when you premix you increase your hydrocarbons in the exhaust how much does this affect the reading of a wideband? if any.
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Originally Posted by NZConvertible
Oxygen sensors (including wideband ones) detect oxygen, not hydrocarbons.
However that is not actually the question I asked.
What my question asked is how many waste hydrocarbons I can expect to find in my exhaust due to the addition of 2-cycle oil. Clearly, your lack of knowledge of oxygen sensor design makes any reply you might give on this topic suspect.
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Clearly, your lack of knowledge of oxygen sensor design makes any reply you might give on this topic suspect.
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Originally Posted by deadRX7Conv
Don't worry about it. Since you're premixing, you're displacing one fuel for another.
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actually, a wideband "consumes" either free O2 or free hydrocarbons in the exhaust stream.
A rich mixture will cause a pump current going in one direction to consume all the hydrocarbons, a lean mixture will cause the electronics controlling the sensor to produce a current in another direction to consume the oxygen. Which direction the current goes depends on the voltage of the "reference cell" which is basically a narrowband sensor that only senses rich or lean. The pump current required to neutralize all the hydrocarbons or oxygen in the mixture is what is used by the controller to determine the actual AFR.
So really if you think about it, it's detecting/consuming oxygen on the lean side, and detecting/consuming hydrocarbons on the rich side... how much of each determines how lean/rich the controller reports the mixture is.
My info comes from http://www.wbo2.com/lsu/default.htm under "How 5 Wire Pump Cell Sensors Work." You can go there if my explanation sucked too bad...
To answer the question... I don't think premixing changes anything enough to have an impact. You might end up with slightly more hydrocarbons, but I would think no more than you'd end up with if you were still burning the normal oil coming in through the oil injectors.
A rich mixture will cause a pump current going in one direction to consume all the hydrocarbons, a lean mixture will cause the electronics controlling the sensor to produce a current in another direction to consume the oxygen. Which direction the current goes depends on the voltage of the "reference cell" which is basically a narrowband sensor that only senses rich or lean. The pump current required to neutralize all the hydrocarbons or oxygen in the mixture is what is used by the controller to determine the actual AFR.
So really if you think about it, it's detecting/consuming oxygen on the lean side, and detecting/consuming hydrocarbons on the rich side... how much of each determines how lean/rich the controller reports the mixture is.
My info comes from http://www.wbo2.com/lsu/default.htm under "How 5 Wire Pump Cell Sensors Work." You can go there if my explanation sucked too bad...
To answer the question... I don't think premixing changes anything enough to have an impact. You might end up with slightly more hydrocarbons, but I would think no more than you'd end up with if you were still burning the normal oil coming in through the oil injectors.
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Originally Posted by DerangedHermit
Holy crap, someone crossed NZConvertible. This should get good.
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Originally Posted by NZConvertible
Why should I bother? Technically he's right, but not because I'm wrong. I just didn't think this simple question neede a complicated answer. His snarky comment is probably just in response to the many times I've corrected BS he's posted.
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