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AT 17503 – Automotive
Electrical and Electronics
SESSION 23
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Recap of session 22

 Air flow measurement

 Vane type air flow sensor
 Updraft sir-flow sensor
 Hot wire anemometry

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Cold Wire Air Flow Sensor

 A third, and less common style of MAF is the "coldwire" sensor.

 This style of sensor is used mainly by General Motors LS series of
engines.
 The main way in which the coldwire differs from the hotwire is that it
sends out a digital frequency signal as opposed to an analog voltage
signal to the engine ECU.
 It does this by using a small sensor placed in the MAF tube that is part of
an oscillator circuit.
 As more air flows through the tube the inductance of the sensor is
changed and therefore the oscillation frequency changes.
 The ECU reads the change in frequency and is able to calculate the new
mass flow rate entering the engine.
 This style of Airflow sensor shares all of the same advantages of the
hotwire style sensor with the only difference being signal type.
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Vortex Flow Meter

 Detection of the vortices provides an

output signal whose frequency is
proportional to flow velocity.
 When used as an engine air flow sensor,
this system will produce an output
frequency of about 50 Hz at idle speed
and in excess of 1 kHz at full load.

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Position and speed sensor

 Engine-speed sensors are used in Motronic systems for

 Measuring the engine speed, and
 Determining the crankshaft position (position of the engine pistons)

 The rotational speed is calculated from the internal between the sensor’s signals.

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Inductive speed sensors

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Inductive speed sensors

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Hall Effect Sensor

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End of Session 23

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