Knock sensing with current hardware?

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Knock sensing with current hardware?

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http://www.megasquirt.info/ms2/knock.htm


I wonder if megajolt can accept that GM knock unit? Forget about the firmware, if it can be connected to megajolt and input can be read, then firmware will eventually be made to use it.




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There is a purposely unused

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There is a purposely unused "aux" input on the V3 board, which ties into one of the processor pins. So it conceiveably should be possible with some extra firware code to integrate something like this.
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Can the previous version of

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Can the previous version of the board (V2?) be modified to have that aux input?

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Yes, it can. What I do on

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Yes, it can. What I do on the V3 board is just bring out that unused pin and clamp it with a 5V Zener. Mostly a convenience thing.
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Aye aye chief. When I get

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Aye aye chief. When I get to knock sensing I'll ask you more. :-)

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