Nope.  You gain and lose power by injecting more or less fuel into a
cylinder for each ignition event.  You can go from 300hp to 0hp in 4
ignition events if no fuel goes into the cylinder.  Unfortunately,
mechanical inertia has nothing to do with it. :(

-David

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From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On Behalf
Of Jinx
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2005 4:12 PM
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
Subject: Re: [PIC] Looking for a PIC with ADC, DAC, and UART...

> > > an oscillation of up to 5 horsepower in either direction (10hp
> swing).
> 
> > At 1kHz ? Wow, that's some kind of switching response
> 
> I thought the way most ADCs worked was to lock the signal at a
> certain time, and then successive approximation it.  So, it could
> lock the signal at any point in the ripple, in theory, right?

Yes, 1kHz is no problem for ADC sampling, but the inference I
took was that the ECU could make the motor's output go up or
down by 5hp @ 1kHz. Even if it could direct the motor to do this,
surely mechanical inertia would prevent it happening

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