Re: Fire went out!

["G. Benedikt Rochow" <rochow@segosf.hlo.dec.com>]

>cursory control of the fuel mixture).  One sensor is positioned to mark
>every tooth on the flywheel as it passes by, and the other sensor marked a
>pin in the flywheel which established a certain point in the rotation (i.e.
>TDC #1).  The funky thing about a four-stroke engine is that it isn't
>sufficient to know what the crankshaft position is ... OK, does this TDC of
>cyl #1 signify the beginning of the power or the intake stroke?  The engine

Well, what about the camshaft position? Wouldn't it be easy
to measure?
(BTW, what *does* the Hall effect sensor actually measure, and how?)


-gbr