Cranking taper curve question

[sd1nl]

Hi,

Was playing around with the cranking taper curve today.

I was wondering what is meant with "events" in the curve. Is this engine cycles, or ignition pulses? Tooltips are not exactly clear on this.

Rene

[billr]

I'm pretty sure it is ignition pulses, all of them, every cylinder adds to the count.

[sd1nl]

I would say so, but it is very unclear. The manual is also not clear on this.

[Matt Cramer]

"Events" always refers to ignition events.

[sd1nl]

And the term "ignition event" means one ignition spark, or an ignition cycle (=8 pulses for a v8 for instance)?

[racingmini_mtl]

And the term "ignition event" means one ignition spark, or an ignition cycle (=8 pulses for a v8 for instance)?

One spark.

[sd1nl]

Ok, thanks

[sd1nl]

Strange thing is though that when I set the "ASE count units" to "cycles", in reality this is "ignition events"

And when I set the "cranking fuel rate" to "every event" , the tooltip says this means every "tach event"

It is kind of confusing.

[jsmcortina]

Same thing.

James