My oldest son is an IT manager for the company he works for so in his spare time he plays around with computers a lot and he handed me this gadget for Father's Day, it's an Arduino computer set up and programmed to be a carb sync gauge. I can't say how absolutely accurate it is but I did hook up my Morgan carbtune sync gauge up to my 83 Goldwing which showed my GL carbs were close but not exactly spot on then hooked up the Arduino to see how it compared to what the carbtune was saying and the Arduino was saying the same thing, close but not spot on. My son gave a quick guess at how much it would cost to build this from scratch and he figured the cost of the Arduino itself combined with the vacuum sensors, circuit board for the sensors and digital display comes in at around $140 and I still need to make up a case for it so I wouldn't say it's cost effective considering my Morgan carbtune cost less so I imagine the first question a non computer geek person would ask is why bother? Well my kid built it because he could and cost effective or not I still think it's cool and I'm proud of my son for taking his computer knowledge and using it in a motorcycle related way.
For any of you electronic geeks here that are interested in it and have questions, feel free to ask ...... just keep in mind it's my kid that's the comp geek not me so I'd have to relay any questions to him and wait for an answer.
