Overview
At last. A practical handbook on how to choose and operate datalogging equipment and get the full benefit from what it tells you. Aimed at the amateur competitor, it covers hardware and software and takes over where the manufacturers instructions run out. It shows how to understand what the data is telling you and how to use it to go faster. It covers standard information screens and shows you how to create your own charts and tables that will illuminate the performance of both the car, the driver and the team. On the way, it deals with systems management issues, how to get the quick and easy payoffs, and how to benefit in the long term. It explains how sensors work, how to fit them so they survive and to calibrate them. The final chapter is a Field Guide designed to help you run the system, trouble-shoot hardware and software problems and quickly interpret the output of the graphs under pressure during an event.
Full Product Details
Author: Graham Templeman
Publisher: Veloce Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Veloce Publishing Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 20.70cm
, Height: 1.00cm
, Length: 25.00cm
Weight: 0.522kg
ISBN: 9781845841621
ISBN 10: 184584162
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 28 August 2008
Audience:
General/trade
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print
Availability: In Print
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Reviews
Speedscene, October 2008<br> The magazine of the Hillclimb and Sprint association <br> Considered a 'must-have' these days by an increasing number of motorsport competitors, data logging systems can be as simple or as complicated as the user requires, dependent largely on the number of sensors installed on the car. It's possible to log, and download for subsequent analysis, an astonishing amount of information on the performance of engines, suspension, handling, braking, gearing, steering input - in fact virtually any of the myriad functions affecting car and driver over a lap of a circuit or an ascent of a hillclimb. Experienced racer Graham Templeman takes the reader through the installation, set-up and interpretation of data logging systems in a book that, while not perhaps for the casual reader, does exactly what it says on the cover. There's not a picture of a race car in sight, but the book is packed with examples of just about every conceivable data trace that the engineer, mechanic or driver in amateur will require. The author's essentially practical, no-nonsense approach covers both quick pay-off and longer term analysis methods, and recognizing the confusion that often arises in interpreting the paperwork supplied with proprietary equipment, it starts from where the manufacturers' instructions leave off.
If you have not used a data acquisition system before, then this book is an excellent starting point for beginners ... - Racecar Engineering<br>
Author Information
Graham Templeman has been in and around motorsport for more years than he'll admit, and in that time has raced Minis, Production Sports cars and Formula Ford. He has engineered single seaters, racing sports cars and rally cars, and writes for technical motorsport magazines such as Race Tech, Practical Performance Car, and Full Throttle. Graham's current interest is data logging, about which he has a wide experience of installation, operation and interpretation.
