[1] AEM Performance Electronics [2] builds all sorts of electronics for use in your race car, from engine management systems to wideband air/fuel monitors, fuel pumps, and even boost controllers and ignition components.
The focus of today’s video is their AQ-1 Data Logger [3], which is a compact unit that’s reasonably priced and offers an absolute ton of features.
Dataloggers are helpful to – yep, you guessed it – measure data before, during, and after a run. The information they provide the user can be inspected to determine where during a run the driver shifted, how quickly the driveshaft speed was accelerating, fuel injector duty cycle, and tons more. Chances are, if there’s a component on the car, AEM’s figured out a way to record its operation to better provide information to make tuning changes that will benefit the racing operation.
[4]AEM’s Vice President, Kirk Miller, recently sat down with the folks at Motovicity to talk about the AQ-1, and went over a number of the important features like how it’s designed to be water and shock-proof and uses an SD card to retain data.
Onboard is a G-analyst, voltmeter, GPS and CAN inputs, and also eight analog inputs spread between four 0-5V and four 0-16.5V inputs. There are also three switched digital inputs that can monitor fan operation and the like.
It can be used on vehicles that have either electronic fuel injection or a carburetor, and AEM provides a handy-dandy sensor wizard to help you get everything set up through a traditional USB connection. All data is saved to a single log file with a real-time clock, making it easy to decipher what’s happening and when. Check out the video and hit up the AEM boys if this can help your program.