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.
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Track & Race Cars, October 2008
UK magazine
Circ: 25,000
Data logging can look baffling and complex with the amount of complex lines and numbers that are presented when using data logging. Starting by looking at what type of hardware and software to buy, it goes through how they work and how to read them. This does a good job of explaining things that many manuals would not touch on. The graphs and tables are well labeled and explained showing examples of what can be expected when using data logging.
Bear Facts, Summer 2008
Newsletter of the Porsche Club of America, Polar Region
A practical handbook on how to choose and operate data logging 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 manufacturer's instructions run out. It shows how to understand what the data is telling you and how to use it to go faster.
www.silhouet.com/motorsport, 2008
I think that someone might be trying to tell me something. Shortly after receiving 'How To Build a Motorcycle Engined Race Car,' I receive the book 'The Competition Data Logging Manual.' Someone thinks that I will build one at some point ...The book is clearly written and easy to understand, but then I am familiar with terms such as Controller Area Network (CAN) busses and ECUs through my work, so I can't assume that the novice reader will find to quite so clear, although I don't see why not. I would also recommend the book to anyone who is starting to learn about data analysis in any field, not just data logging from competition cars. The book quite clearly deals with issues such as sampling frequencies and the effect on data, as well as data averaging and measurement ranges. I've met all such problems in the lab before, and it would have been useful to have read this book then. It also tells you a lot about what to look for in your resulting traces, and how to try and understand dynamic issues from what you see. Armed with this book, you could make a good start on understanding them. However, it does sometimes use acronyms without defining what they are, eg. on page 78, limited slip diff becomes 'lsd' without warning, and should really be capitalized, as with the use of CAN earlier in the book. Without defining what the acronym is you could read something completely different for those three letters ... Also, there are very occasional layout issues, with small amounts of text placed between diagrams, so that you can lose the reading flow when going from page to page. But these things are minor. I found the pointers to car behavior from the traces and hints given to setup to be illuminating and potentially very useful to the driver wishing to learn the art of driving faster. If nothing else, it gives you a very different insight into F1 testing and what the drivers do in their briefings with their engineers, and for that it is well worth reading.
Speedscene, October 2008
The magazine of the Hillclimb and Sprint association
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.
The magazine of the Hillclimb and Sprint association
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.
"I would strongly recommend this book to anyone considering adding a data acquisition system to their racing equipment. Read the book first, then start shopping for the system." – The Observers Stand, Ohio Valley Region, Sports Car Club of America
"If you have not used a data acquisition system before, then this book is an excellent starting point for beginners ..." – Racecar Engineering
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This book is aimed at amateur racers but it will no doubt find its way on to the bookshelves of many professionals because of its no-nonsense direct approach to the use of datalogging to improve the performance of both the car and the driver. It includes a buying guide to ensure that you buy a system that suits your present and future needs and deals with installing and calibrating the system to give useful results. It gives practical advice that will minimize problems with the system. It deals with strategies to extract the maximum amount of useful information to help mechanics, engineers and drivers. It reveals the secrets that the professionals, what is possible and what is worthwhile.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Good basic start to data logging,
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Comparing this book to Competition Car Data Logging by Simon McBeath this is much more up to date. It also focuses more on consumer level loggers. It is worth the money paid for it and the time spent reading it. Great if this is the first book you get on Data logging.
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Very useful with Race Technology,
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Very useful. Whilst there are lots of books on data logging available - I selected this one as most of the examples use Race Technology (RT) logging hardware (DL1) (which I use) and it was therefore very easy to both understand the logging concepts and be in a position to implement.
As this is my only data logging book, I cannot compare the data logging elements to others - however I would recommend it for other users of RT hardware.
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Not the best or the worst book on the subject but a good place to start. Of all the books I have on the subject (one is out of print)it is the third best.
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