mychron3 or mychron4?

Chris Parks · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:

The shifter lights only "learn" through driving if you do not have a gear selector switch which you won't have on a CR. It is a fairly involved process to .teach the instrument and if the gearing is changed you have to do it again. For driving it is not necessary IMO what it is nice for is date analysis later on.

GPS is not necessary with a physical inertia sensor. The physical sensor is far more accurate than GPS and don't let anyone tell you it isn't.

You need both the inertia sensor and the speed sensor to track map.
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Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 7:16 am Post subject:

I have a 3 Gold and a 3 Extreme, I keep thinking of upgrading, but other than using the GPS for a beacon, I can't think of a reason why..... Most of us will never use the expandability of the 4, it's go gobs of features, but I have heard lots of pro's and cons about the GPS which is why I stay with the 3's for now.

Has anybody seen this?:
http://www.competitiondata.com/sensors/pg11_gps.htm

If it were a little bit more reasonable, it might make sense, but for $660, I think I would just sell my stuff and go M4......

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Ryan Leger · Joined: 19 Jul 2012 Posts: 133

I knkw someone who uses that system chris and they have had nothing but problems with it

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Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 1:45 pm Post subject:

Cesar Rull · Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 6:19 pm Post subject:

Question guys, Just to make sure I understand,
the advantage of the Mychron 3 Gold over the plus is:

More memory
Built-in Speed Sensor
Internal G Sensor

Which leads me to ask, to a Mychron 3 Plus can you add:
Speed Sensors
G Sensor

I am looking at these gauges as I want to also use it for the car, and unfortunately I just learned alfano discontinued their Astro model.

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 4:02 am Post subject:

Chris Parks · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:33 am Post subject:

I think the screen on the three or its bigger MXL brothers is far better than a 4 but of course it is a personal preference.

The Extreme will run four extra analogue channels which is handy.

The big advantage of the 4 is the ability to expand it by canbus to a lot more than four analogue channels, the amount of info is just about unlimited through canbus.

The M4 will utilise the Smarty Cam which to some is very important

The Smarty Cam has integrated GPS

To sum up, if you get serious about Data ANALYSIS you will find that it is possible to add as many channels to the M4 as you want where the best you can do is add four channels at the most to the Extreme. Some would say that is enough, others would disagree.
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understeer happens on road courses and usually is pronounced with a British accent. Push happens on ovals and usually is pronounced through a wad of chew. Other than that, I don't think there's a difference - Jim Derrig

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Cesar Rull · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 9:08 am Post subject:

Thanks. I feel the display is too crammed on the M4 ? I have never used one, but it just seems that way from the pictures when compared to a M3 (higher en model)

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:36 pm Post subject:

Cesar Rull · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 5:56 pm Post subject: I called Aim

I was told their mychron 3 stuff was over ten years old?! and pretty much discontinued?

Anyway, they were suggesting I try the Mychron with a GPS if I want track mapping.

I have a general question. Do these gauges not display speed although they do track it? In racing is it not important to look at your speed as you drive?

Ryan Leger · Joined: 19 Jul 2012 Posts: 133

the mychron 3 displays speed in mph or kph but i believe you need to have the speed sensors for that and evein if it is 10 years old it still works great and im using some mychron 4 sensors on it i dont think they have changes the connectors much

Chris Reinhardt · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:17 pm Post subject:

You can configure the 3's dash to view several different things, in several different ways, and yes you can view the MPH or KPH while driving if it floats your boat.

You need a speed sensor to do almost anything in the 3's, they're pretty useless without it.

Mychron still supports the 3's, all the sensor are the same as the 4 I believe, if you have an issue with a 3 gauge, send it to Aim Sports, the can fix almost anything!!!!

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Cesar Rull · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:22 pm Post subject:

Thank you,

Let me ask you guys this. Do you all not look at speed at all while racing or tuning?

Tyson Henry · Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2012 7:36 pm Post subject:

The only time I have really used speed is to look for top speed at ends of straights (tuning) and for track mapping. I never look at it while driving. There isnt time for it.