Vehicle Speed Sensor - Pulse rate correction - digital correction

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teliocide

Joined Sep 26, 2013
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I need to match the vss output (non original gearbox) to the pulse rate expected by the cars engine management computer.
There are commercial units:
http://www.dakotadigital.com/index....ct_id=126/category_id=-1/mode=prod/prd126.htm
I would like to have ago at making my own.
I have done this very crudely in the past with a few cheap chinese ebay bits ie
Frequency to Voltage converter >>>>>Variable resistor>>>>>> Voltage to frequency converter.

Does any one have circuit to do this digitally.??

Thanks
Greg
 

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Can you program a microprocessor?
That's likely the easiest way to go.

Otherwise it would simplify things if you have a specific range of frequency ratio change you want to do, and is it up or down in frequency?
 

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teliocide

Joined Sep 26, 2013
126
Fortran and MS Basic from the mid 1970's when I worked at Kodak Research Labs.
There is more to it than coding.
Some form of mathematical expression is required to describe what is going on.

I have not been able to measure the VSS ouput.
But it is less than required.

I am interested how Dakota Digital achieved this
 
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crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Fortran and MS Basic from the mid 1970's
Microprocessors are, of course, available with Basic interpreters or compilers.
I am interested hoe Dakota Digital achieved this
My guess is they used a microprocessor.
One way would be to measure the input pulse period (perhaps with some averaging) and generate output pulses with a shorter or longer period, depending on whether the output frequency should be greater or less than the input frequency.

I suppose that involves a mathematical expression, but it's not that complicated.
You multiply the measured input period by the ratio of the desired input to output frequency ratio to get the output period.
 
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