where do you buy your strain gage load cells from?

 

assuming you are going to use it as a gear change cut on your shifter, this is the only place that had an idea of what i was talking about.
http://www.omegadyne.com/

we ended up going a different route, but i strongly recommend you to get in contact with t1 race.

 

thanks, yes i am useing it as an ignition cut, im looking for one to mount on the shift ****. its for my hotrod car, we are useing an xtrac tranny with an xtrac shifter

 

have you talked tony about that? I ampretty sure he can work something out!

 

Contact miller from NRG. He has a slightly better deal than what Tony did, but both are great!

 

theirs not much to talk about send 1G & u got a gauge, lol

 

i got mine from T1

 

If you spent a grand, you got raped....

 

sorry 800$, lol

 

Still overpaid. lol

 

What up J? not using Kurts stuff anymore?

 

no. kurts stuff is not working, it keeps failing on us. so im looking at other options. im looking at the xtrac micro-switch on the shift ****. just keepin my options open.

 

Does the car have a Motec?

 

ya, the car has motec m400 and a motec cdi8

 

Cool. All you need is the strain gage and the gear position sensor on the Xtrac and you can shift it perfect, just as intended by Xtrac.

 

i have one already, its a load cell thats inline with the shift rod, but its having problems binding up for some reason, i was told to use a micro switch on the shifter itself, and it will work better then the load cell.

 

There are many ways to skin a cat, just have to know exactly what you want and who is setting the car up and how they want to do it.

 

If what you have is binding up, then there's obviously a problem.

A strain gage is going to be much more consistent than a micro switch if you have it working correctly.

 

this is what i was looking into. there is a micro switch in the shift ****.

 

I'm pretty sure that is setup so that it takes a certain amount of force to move the **** enough to trigger the micro switch. Something like that will be kind of hard to duplicate. Essentially, what that is doing is mimicking what a strain gage does, without the ease of being able to set the gear shift force cut point.

Why can't you fix whatever is causing yours to bind up and use it?

 

i was told that the load cell dosent work as well as a micro-switch, the micro switch is an on/off switch, where as if the load cell dosent have enough load applyed to it, or binds up for some reason, it wont work. i want to be able to elimanate the "maybe" and have a "for sure" ignition cut. the load cell that i have now has fail to many times on me, and has destroyed the gears. i just dont have the money to keep fixing the tranny, because of a load cell.

 

Sounds like you've got the wrong load cell or have it setup wrong if it's able to bind.

 

ya, i probably have the wrong cell

 

tony1, i see you have a strain gage, on your shift ****. does it work better on the ****, or will it work beter if its in-line with the shift rod? what kind of load cell do you have?

 

Mine is a strain gage bonded to the shift lever itself. I've used them this way as well as the inline units on the Xtrac in the past and had good results with both. Sounds like the one that's bonded to your level may be a better option for you since you're having binding issues with what you have.