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Emtron Australia

Emtron Shadow 8

Emtron Shadow 8

High End Motorsport Engine Management

$1,886.00 NZD
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PRE ORDER: Shipping December 31, 2024

Emtron’s Shadow 8 is a wire in ECU with a high level of flexibility. This ECU will support up to 8 Channels of fully sequential Fuel and Ignition.  Every unit is housed in a durable billet Aluminium enclosure and includes 16MB permanent memory for on-board logging, DBW control, USB C Communications and Knock control up to 2 channels to name a few.

General

Power Supply

  • Operating Voltage: 6.0 to 22.0 Volts DC (ECU shutdowns at 24.0V)
  • Operating Current: 290mA at 14.0V (excluding sensor and load currents)
  • Reverse Battery Protection via External Fuse
  • “Smart” battery transient protection

Operating Temperature

  • Max operating range: -30 to 110°C (-22 to 230°F)
  • Recommended operating range: -30 to 85°C (-22 to 185°F)

Physical

  • Aluminium 6061 grade CNC billet enclosure
  • Enclosure size 152 mm x 139 mm x 26 mm
  • Weight: 520g
  • Connector system: 68-way Super Seal waterproof connectors with gold plated contacts
  • Pin diameter: 1 mm
  • Current rating: maximum 15A per pin (wire gauge dependent)
  • Connector A: 34 pin Key 2 Super Seal
  • Connector B: 34 pin Key 1 Super Seal

Internal

  • 100MHz processor
  • 500Mb DDR RAM (0.5Gb)
  • 16MB ECU logging memory.  Over 1200 channels available, 1Hz to 500Hz logging rate

 

Outputs

8x Port Injector Outputs - High Z

  • 70V clamping
  • Outputs can be used for ground switching, 6A Continuous, 10A Limit
  • All outputs are short circuit and over current protected
  • No Flywheel diodes (external diode(s) required for VVT control)

8x Ignition Outputs

  • Adjustable TTL Ignition drive current (35mA or 70mA)
  • Outputs can be used for ground switching, 1A Continuous, 3A Limit
  • All outputs are short circuit and over current protected
  • No Flywheel diodes (external diode(s) required for VVT control)

12x Auxiliary Outputs

  • Variable Valve Timing (VVT) and Variable Valve Timing Electric (VTiE), Drive by Wire (DBW), dual boost control, gearshift solenoids, stepper motor and many more.
  • All outputs have PWM control, maximum frequency = 10 kHz
  • Flywheel diodes integrated into all outputs
  • All outputs are short circuit and over current protected. 
  • Low Side Driver Auxiliary 1-4: 4A continuous, 6A peak modulated, 8A limit
  • Low Side Driver Auxiliary 5-8: 2.5A continuous, 4A peak modulated, 5A limit
  • High Side Driver Auxiliary 1-8: High Side 4A continuous, 8A limit
  • Half Bridge Driver Auxiliary 9-10: 5A continuous and 8A limit. Can be used as Low Side, High Side or together in H-bridge configuration for DC motor control (DBW)

1x Shield Output

  • Connection for Trigger and Knock shielded cables. Short to battery protection

 

Inputs

10x Analog Voltage/Temperature Inputs

  • Fully configurable including custom calibrations
  • Switchable 1k ohm pull-up resistors on ANV 7-10 for temperature inputs (available on 4 channels)
  • Accepts a 0.0 – 5.0V analog input. Resolution is 1.22mV (12-Bit)

10x Digital/Speed Inputs/Switched Inputs

  • Frequency range from 0.0Hz up the 5.0kHz on 1-4 channels
  • Magnetic and Hall effect sensor compatible on DI 1-4 with programable trigger edge(s)
  • Hall effect sensor only on DI 5-8 with programable trigger edge(s)
  • Independent programable frequency-based arming threshold control, range 0.0 – 12.0V on DI 1-4
  • Fixed frequency-based arming thresholds on DI 5-8. Rising = 1.2V, Falling = 1.0V.
  • Wheel speed, output shaft speed and other frequency-based signals
  • VVT position(s) up to 4 channels available on DI 1- 4.
  • ON/OFF switched inputs: AC request, Launch enable, cruise switch, table control switching etc with arming threshold control, range 0.0 -20.0V
  • Accepts a 0.0 – 20.0V analog input. Resolution is 4.88mV (10-Bit)
  • Switchable 4k7 ohm pull-up resistors on 1-8 channels to 10V

2x Knock Inputs with configurable Frequency and Gain.

  • 2 Independent knock input channels
  • Digital Knock Integrated Circuit Technology with programmable Centre Frequency, Gain and Integrator Time Constant
  • Centre frequency configurable from 1kHz - 20kHz
  • Gain control from 0.1 to 2.0
  • Cylinder selectable knock input
  • Knock control available on ALL Ignition modes (Direct, Wasted, Distributor etc)

1x Ignition Switch Input/DI10

    • 6.0 - 20.0V input used for EFI Relay Control. (With input > 6V the Internal Hold-power system turns the ECU ON using the HOT Supply).

2x Crank Index and Sync Engine Decoding Inputs

    • Magnetic and Hall effect sensor compatible with programable trigger edge(s)
    • “True” zero crossing detection on magnetic signals for precise engine position decoding.
    • Programmable independent arming threshold control from 0.1V to 12.0V
    • Switchable 4k7 ohm pull-up resistor to 5V
    • OEM patterns supported

 

Electrical

1x ECU Supply Input

  • 15.0A Max (pin limited)
  • 6V – 22.0V Range
  • Supplies ECU power
  • Supplies power to Auxiliary 1-8 High Side Drivers

1x Auxiliary 9-12 Supply Input

  • 15.0A Max (pin limited)
  • Power supply for Auxiliary channels 9 -12.

1x 5.0V Sensor Supply

  • 5.0V Vref1 output current 250mA

 1x 8.0V Sensor Supply

  • Output current 400mA

2x ECU Main Grounds

  • 15.0A per pin, total 30A

1x Sensor 0V Reference

  • Analog Sensor 0V Reference with short to battery protection

 

Communications
  • 1x USB C Communications
  • 2x CAN 2.0B 1Mbps/ 6 Channels per node, total 128 messages.

 

Software

Emtron’s comprehensive Emtune tuning software is used to connect to the ECU.

  • Microsoft Windows  7 -10 compatible
  • Free license
  • Memory requirements: 0.5GB RAM
  • ECU connection using USB-C
  • Tuning and data analysis
  • PC and ECU data logging
  • Live pause and data playback
  • Advanced tuning functions
  • Diagnostics
  • Oscilloscope display
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