Mike Matheos Working with today’s state of the art “Data Acquisition Systems” can be quite intimidating. The complexity of choosing, installing, and troubleshooting the systems along with working with and interpreting the data which is captured are the two most common reasons racers and crew chiefs stay away from high end data acquisition in their racing program. As part of our Engineering Services, we offer a complete systems approach to help your team learn the details to help make educated engineering decisions from data captured after each run on these systems. A timely and comprehensive data analysis after each run will help pinpoint any areas of concern so repairs or adjustments can be started immediately and keep you in the race. When time is valuable, such as between qualifying or elimination rounds, timely analysis of the data is imperative to the success of your racing program. We work exclusively with the “Racepak” brand of data acquisition. This is considered by most professional teams as the benchmark system that all others are measured against. Racepak has recently added many items to its product offering to bring professional level data acquisition down to the weekend racers budget and level of computer understanding. Examples of these recent products are shown in the photos below. E-Mail us today with your application and we will advise you of the best path for your budget and desired outcome. Racepak recently launched many new products – such ad the digital dashboard shown in the photo below. This unit is easily connected via one cable to the V-Net buss on the V-300 system. It allows the user to do away with the many traditional analog style individual gages and shows data from the actual sensors which feed will be viewed in the downloads after each run. The actual V-300 unit is compact and light weight (less than 2 lbs). It contains both accelerating and lateral “G” meters as well as the holding place for the recorded data of each run with over 1 Meg of data space (approx 10x more memory than most users will ever need). It also serves as the point for hookup when downloading the data to a laptop after each run. The small V-Net buss can be seen in the dash area of the photo below (above the transmission shield in the center of the dash area). The blue colored V-Net sensors essentially stack on each other – making hookup easy and convenient. System programming is easily completed after adding sensors and will provide years of trouble free use. Here is an examples of actual Racepak downloads which can be viewed minutes after making a run at the rack. With the data in the software the user can choose to view any number of sensors which are installed on the system. This allows the user to focus in on any areas of concern and make quick educated decisions on their next tune up for the upcoming passes.   ©2007 Pittman Enterprises, Inc. Site Designed by