Fully Sequential Injection
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Now that Jean has developed the MS2/Extra code to handle fully sequential injection on the Megasquirt, I have decided to trial this option.

This involves some modifications to the MS board and the MS2 daughterboard, but these are all well detailed on Jean's website and the MS Forums. You also need one of Jean's Quad Injector Driver boards.

The problem that I have had with both the semi-sequential and the quasi siamese fully sequential modes is that I still cannot get enough fuel into the outer cylinders.

I have so far managed to get reasonably close AFRs up to 5000 rpm, but am still not really ready to trust it on a turbocharged engine.

The best results have been by using a single pulse that injects throughout the inlet phases of the both inner and outer cylinders.

This is a bit of a compromise as the code was not written to be used in this manner and although the car runs fine there are issues with acceleration enrichment. If you stomp on the throttle the AE will send all the extra fuel to the inner cylinders and there is a tendancy to bog.

So, I've got one of Jean's boards and also some LS2 type coils that mean I can run true fully sequential injection and coil on plug type ignition.

There is still the issue of how to time the injection to give the best results. I have come up with the following plan:


The red and blue lines represent the injection pulses with the dotted line being the mid-pulse timing.

Although the vertical scale reads RPM it could also read MAP, but hopefully you will get the jist of it.

At low revs or load the injection pulses are clearly separate, but as the revs or load rises, the pulses merge so that at full chat the pulses coincide.

From my trials with two pulses and the single pulse, I have sufficient data to develop the injection timing tables to give the desired results.

I will just use a single VE table to minimise the variables in tuning.

Any thoughts at this stage?

Edited by Paul S on 13th May, 2009.

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I'm trying to keep up this time as I would still like to try this on a N/A 5 port A series

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You guys pushing this forward deserve a huge amount of credit. Well done. :)

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Bugger, that has stuffed that idea then.

Back to the effing drawing board.

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It's always possible to implement another mode but I'd like to know the what is currently available doesn't work.

Is there any reason why you think staged injection wouldn't solve your issue? Staging can be combined with dual table mode so you have the same flexibility in terms of timing and setting the VE separately for the inner and outer cylinders.

Jean

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The major problem that I see is that using two pulses close together on the same injector does not work as the theory would suggest.

By the time the MS has shut off the injector, waited for the next opportunity to fire again, then fired it takes more than just the millisecond to open the injector to get the fuel moving due to reverse pulses in the fuel tract of the injector.

Reality is that you need 20% of the duty cycle between pulses.

So, at high revs you end up with much the same injection timing as the semi-sequential mode. Once you start injecting against a closed valve, it's a whole different ball game. I know because I spent 6 months or more trying to get it to work.

If we can get the single pulse mode to work correctly, without firing the second pulse under any circumstances, then there is still a solution with the staged injectors.

Ultimately we can still get four injectors firing at 50% duty cycle at full chat with a passing chance of getting the same fuel in each cylinder.

Rant over......... for now.

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To be pedantic about it, if you really need 20% duty cycle between pulses (which is probably a good estimate) and if you limit the duty cycle to 50% or less, you can have the pulses closer than with semi-sequential. But that's not significant because you'll still be injecting mostly on a closed valve.

When you say you've been trying to make the semi-sequential to work without success, I think you're ignoring the fact that you can now have a different pulse width for the inner and outer cylinders when using the sequential mode (instead of semi-sequential). This should go a long way towards solving the AFR mismatch.

Anyway, the unwanted extra pulse will be removed in the next code release. And if you need it, I can send you a pre-release version.

As I said, if it's really needed I can add a new mode that will do what you wanted. It shouldn't be a huge deal because all the pieces are there in the code and is mostly a matter of putting them together. It certainly wouldn't be even close to what it took to create the original sequential siamese option.

Jean

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I'm happy to wait for the next release.

I would like some feedback from other testers to see if they can get the sequential siamese mode to work. It may be just my particular inlet design or cam selection that is causing the problems. I don't know.

However, I am currently of the opinion that the sequential siamese mode is unworkable in it's current guise using dual VE tables.

Hence, instead of a new mode, I would like to see this mode based on the single pulse method, so that you do not have to fudge around with settings to get it to work.

Finally Jean, I would just like to say that the work you have done is great and without your efforts this would not be possible. It is very much appreciated.

But...... we have a bit more fine tuning of the code to do before we can make it work properly.

Edited by Paul S on 13th May, 2009.

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I agree that there's more work to be done. And I would also like to see results from others just to see how much difference there is between different setups.

I can see the new mode being able to do both of the configurations you want: with 2 drivers, it would be a single pulse without having to use dual table mode and with 4 drivers, it would be the per-cylinder injector channels with different timing for the inner and outer cylinders. The single pulse is really the same thing where 2 drivers are ignored (unless you still need staged injection).

Jean

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I think that ultimately what will be the best solution is something close to what your graph shows but in a slightly different way (and something I had in mind when I first started thinking about this code) where you have 2 pulses at low load/RPM and a single pulse at high load/RPM. All that with a single injector driver per intake port. And then over that, the possibility to add staged injection for even more fuel if/when needed. With this you could be injecting on an open valve only and maximize the duty cycle.

What is needed with this is a way to handle the transition between the 2 modes. There's the issue of when to change mode (with some hysteresis) and how to handle the timing and pulse widths without having to fiddle with too many tables.

One advantage of a mode like this is that you could have 3 mode in one: one pulse per cylinder, one pulse per intake port, and a mix of both. All that would be required is the setting of the transition point to have one of the 3 sub-modes.

Jean

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I think that the transition from dual to single would be a nightmare to set up.

You would have to ensure that one of the VE tables doubled up exactly at the same time as the other zeroed out. The timing table would also have to be set up so that the timing changed precisely at the same time.

Synchronising all this would be very difficult. In my opinion.

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wow, my heads gone now!

Edited by Rod S on 13th May, 2009.

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Guys awesome stuff ! The 5 port EFI stuff is the main reason I joined the forum and I must say im still getting to grips with in all but what you guys have achieved is really amazing !!

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The problem with big injectors is that they are supposed to be problematic at idle. Hence, I'm reluctant to take too great a step in that direction.

However, I've not had an idle problem with four large (480cc) high z injectors, although pulse widths were very low, less than 2mS.

I've just bought a set of four 630cc high z injectors for the 1293 turbo. So I could try those on the 1030 engine.

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Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

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On 13th May, 2009 jbelanger said:

On 13th May, 2009 Rod S said:
I only have 78 (very large) tiles to go.....

Do they really have to all be even? Randomness has it's charm...

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Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

What happens with the existing code when the timing for the two pulses overlaps? Does it effectively result in a single longer pulse?