15 June 2014, 22:11
Hoi,
Vanavond kreeg ik via een Amerikaans forum onderstaande vraag voorgelegd. Iemand enig idee hoe dat geregeld werd door volvo?
Groet,
Mathieu.
Mathieu:
It occurred to me that if you are planning to install air conditioning on your car with Megasquirt, you are going to have to make some kind of provision for automatic idle control. If you turn on air conditioning, you have to increase the idle air to increase the engine power out to run the compressor, otherwise your engine will almost certainly die. If you don't do this, you would have to set the base idle really high, maybe 1500 RPM, so that when the air conditioning is turned on the idle might drop to 900 - 1000 RPM instead of dying. In order to do idle control, you could use something like the Bosch PWM idle air control valve that Volvo used on the B230 engines (my old 1987 745 turbo wagon had one of these). I have not investigated idle control in Megasquirt so I am not sure how exactly to set it up although I have made provision in the wiring harness for an idle air control valve in the event that my auxiliary air valve sticks shut or open some time in the future. You could also do something really simple like add a separate solenoid controlled air valve into the idle air circuit and have that valve controlled by the same relay that operated the compressor. You would then have to figure out some way of adjusting the air flow through that valve to get the idle speed that you want. The advantage of this is that it does not involve the Megasquirt controller.
Anyway, just something for you to consider in your plans if you are serious about doing air conditioning. It would be interesting to know how Volvo did this idle speed control on the B20E engines with air conditioning.
Neil
Vanavond kreeg ik via een Amerikaans forum onderstaande vraag voorgelegd. Iemand enig idee hoe dat geregeld werd door volvo?
Groet,
Mathieu.
Mathieu:
It occurred to me that if you are planning to install air conditioning on your car with Megasquirt, you are going to have to make some kind of provision for automatic idle control. If you turn on air conditioning, you have to increase the idle air to increase the engine power out to run the compressor, otherwise your engine will almost certainly die. If you don't do this, you would have to set the base idle really high, maybe 1500 RPM, so that when the air conditioning is turned on the idle might drop to 900 - 1000 RPM instead of dying. In order to do idle control, you could use something like the Bosch PWM idle air control valve that Volvo used on the B230 engines (my old 1987 745 turbo wagon had one of these). I have not investigated idle control in Megasquirt so I am not sure how exactly to set it up although I have made provision in the wiring harness for an idle air control valve in the event that my auxiliary air valve sticks shut or open some time in the future. You could also do something really simple like add a separate solenoid controlled air valve into the idle air circuit and have that valve controlled by the same relay that operated the compressor. You would then have to figure out some way of adjusting the air flow through that valve to get the idle speed that you want. The advantage of this is that it does not involve the Megasquirt controller.
Anyway, just something for you to consider in your plans if you are serious about doing air conditioning. It would be interesting to know how Volvo did this idle speed control on the B20E engines with air conditioning.
Neil