Hello All, I didn't know where to post this on your forum, so if it needs to be somewhere else, please move it to the proper area. Also, not trying to sell anybody anything, just an update about the EBL project since I have purchased Dynamic EFI this past March.
The EBL project has been a HUGE undertaking since there is nobody to ask any questions about the pcb portion of the EBL board. We have poured over tons of schematics that Bob R had made to include drawings, files on the production PC and the other PC, tons of electronic parts that needed to be cataloged and all of Bobs notes. It has taken a while to gather the information and make sense of it all. My engineer has ripped most of his hair out now from this project, but we finally made some headway on the project. Thank you Tracy for all your hard work.
Last Wed, we received the first fully populated test pcb from the manufacturer that we decided to go with and installed it into a ECM for a CFI with HAM mod and it powered up OK and seemed to work OK according to the test box we created. (see Instagram for that project XFP Instagram) We have checked the overall quality of the pcb, and the values of each component for correctness. Everything looks great. We are doing some further testing to ensure the EBL is completely functioning as expected.
The last final test will be installing it in my 82 vette, load my current tune and fire it up and drive it. If that all goes well, we will start production soon. However, we also still need to work out a couple things with the manufacturer on the PICs. We want them to program the PICs from our firmware file to save us a ton of time and shipping back and forth. They will also have the PICs on hand to place on the pcbs moving forward. A note on the EBL pcb. I do not know if any of you knew about this, but Bob R did every EBL board by hand. He installed all the electronics on that board himself and used solder masks and programmed them. I did not know that until on went to PA on a site survey and was shocked when they told me this. There was no way I was going to do that, that's why these company's that make these boards have a pick-N-place on a machine. Just throwing that out there to you all. Oh, and this was for all his boards he sold.
All in all, it is coming together and with any luck we can start full production soon. What does that mean? Aain, this intended for information on the project progression. We plan on starting the production off with the CFI ECMs and a few TBI boxes. Once that whole thing gets moving, we are looking at maybe doing the TPI boxes, but that is down the road since there is so much of a backlog of CFI/TBI owners waiting.
I hope this helps and clears up a few things for you all. Bill has emailed me a few times about the EBL project and unfortunately we had only started at that time. Now we are moving along nicely. Hope you all had a great holiday weekend.
The EBL project has been a HUGE undertaking since there is nobody to ask any questions about the pcb portion of the EBL board. We have poured over tons of schematics that Bob R had made to include drawings, files on the production PC and the other PC, tons of electronic parts that needed to be cataloged and all of Bobs notes. It has taken a while to gather the information and make sense of it all. My engineer has ripped most of his hair out now from this project, but we finally made some headway on the project. Thank you Tracy for all your hard work.
Last Wed, we received the first fully populated test pcb from the manufacturer that we decided to go with and installed it into a ECM for a CFI with HAM mod and it powered up OK and seemed to work OK according to the test box we created. (see Instagram for that project XFP Instagram) We have checked the overall quality of the pcb, and the values of each component for correctness. Everything looks great. We are doing some further testing to ensure the EBL is completely functioning as expected.
The last final test will be installing it in my 82 vette, load my current tune and fire it up and drive it. If that all goes well, we will start production soon. However, we also still need to work out a couple things with the manufacturer on the PICs. We want them to program the PICs from our firmware file to save us a ton of time and shipping back and forth. They will also have the PICs on hand to place on the pcbs moving forward. A note on the EBL pcb. I do not know if any of you knew about this, but Bob R did every EBL board by hand. He installed all the electronics on that board himself and used solder masks and programmed them. I did not know that until on went to PA on a site survey and was shocked when they told me this. There was no way I was going to do that, that's why these company's that make these boards have a pick-N-place on a machine. Just throwing that out there to you all. Oh, and this was for all his boards he sold.
All in all, it is coming together and with any luck we can start full production soon. What does that mean? Aain, this intended for information on the project progression. We plan on starting the production off with the CFI ECMs and a few TBI boxes. Once that whole thing gets moving, we are looking at maybe doing the TPI boxes, but that is down the road since there is so much of a backlog of CFI/TBI owners waiting.
I hope this helps and clears up a few things for you all. Bill has emailed me a few times about the EBL project and unfortunately we had only started at that time. Now we are moving along nicely. Hope you all had a great holiday weekend.
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