The MegaSquirt Project has experienced explosive growth other the years, with hundreds of new MS installations occurring every week - a phenomenal success! MegaSquirt has been successfully used in all aspects of Internal Combustion engine applications including R&D, Industry, Race, and Research. The MS project has transformed itself from a simple R&D project into a full-featured mature engine control system. To reflect this the support structure has also changed to meet the needs of MegaSquirt Users.
Moving forward, the R&D forums for MegaSquirt project are in a read-only mode - no new forum posts are accepted.
However the forums will remain available for view, they still contain a wealth of information on how MegaSquirt works, how it is installed and used. Feel free to search the forums for information, facts, and overview.While the R&D forum traffic has slowed in recent years, this is not at all a reflection of Megasquirt users, which continue to grow year after year. What has changed is that the method of MegaSquirt support today has rapidly moved to Facebook, this is where the vast majority of interaction is happening now. For those not on Facebook the msextra forums is another place for product support. Finally, for product selection assistance, all of the MegaSquirt vendors are there to help you select a system, along with all of the required pieces to make it complete.
This forum is for discussing ignition setup, tuning, and troubleshooting for MicroSquirt (TM)
Forum rules
Read the manual to see if your question is answered there before posting. If you have questions about MS1/Extra or MS2/Extra or other non-B&G code configuration or tuning, please post them at http://www.msextra.com The full forum rules are here: Forum Rules, be sure to read them all regularly.
Hello List,
I am new here and relatively new to electronics as well.
I have however bought a MicroSquirt unit from DIY in hope to figure out a way to run the ignition (only) of a 1998 Volkswagen jetta engine which I have retrofitted from EFI to carbs. This engine has a missing tooth wheel 60-2 (on the crankshaft) and an ignition distributor originally controlled by the stock ECU. I hope to be able to set up the Microsquirt unit as simply as it would be humanly possible and I wonder if someone here could offer some advice (other than read the manual) to get me started.
Matt Cramer wrote:Running ignition only is fairly straightforward. There are no ignition-only specific settings, but you can just leave the fuel outputs disconnected.
Thanks Matt for your guidance.
Happy New Year.
Haybayian
