Continental Flex fuel sensor

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jasaircraft
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Re: Continental Flex fuel sensor

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So today i started this car i mentioned in my previous post and now it did throw the flex fault, i changed the low freq to 49 and it stopped showing the fault... why could this be?
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Re: Continental Flex fuel sensor

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Some of these didn't quite hit the 50 Hz low / 150 Hz high targets due to production tolerances.
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Re: Continental Flex fuel sensor

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The next beta firmware has some tweaks to assist with this.

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Re: Continental Flex fuel sensor

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Water is a contaminant for those sensors---esp 30% water.

1% or so will stay in suspension, but gasoline wont stay in suspension above a certain water concentration.

That's how the little water mix ethanol% test cylinders work...
the water mixes with the alcohol and the gasoline separates out, leaving a visible transition.

IPA will mix fine with gasoline as long as the water % is low.
(Its used as diesel or gas "drygas")
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Re: Continental Flex fuel sensor

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Great to know its been assisted, i managed to solve a problem on a car im working on and will test the alcohol content and the basic fuel/timing setup... also the blended boost tables. :RTFM:
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