Custom Sensors

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While managing configurations, you’ve surely seen that every channel needs information about which sensor is used to log data. The ‘sensor’ is a description of how a physical quantity is transduced into an electrical quantity (either a resistance or a voltage), being such an electrical quantity the information the AiM device can manage and log.

AiM supplies a rather complete set of sensors, but you, as a user, can decide that AiM supplied sensors don’t match your needs, and you can define yours: the ‘custom sensors’.

Note

Webinar Icon AiM Tech Tips short video, held by Bryc Talley, named “Custom Fuel Level Sensors”. Click here to open the August 26th, 2024 video.

The custom sensors manager is a database, the window of which is vertically divided in two parts: left and right.

The right part is a custom sensors list, in which, by default, all custom sensors are shown. For each custom sensor you’re prompted the most important information, and there are buttons for the main operations you can do on custom sensors.

The left part is the ‘filtering’ part, in which you can drive a subset of custom sensors to be shown instead of the complete list. From top to bottom in the column, you find: all custom sensors, sensor types, manual collections.

All Custom Sensors

Select this item in the left column and the list of custom sensors will include all the custom sensors you ever managed.

At the very first use of RaceStudio 3, selecting this item will always generate an empty right list. Click on the ‘New’ button to create a new custom sensor or on the ‘Import’ button to add a custom sensor from a drive.

Custom Sensors of Specific Physical Quantities

Say you create, or you import, custom sensors for two/three different physical quantities, this left list will be populated with a row for every physical quantity.

Select any physical quantity item in the physical quantities list and the list of custom sensors will include all the custom sensors you ever managed for that physical quantity.

Custom Sensors in Manual Collections

You can create collections of custom sensors you want to group for any given reason. The way to do this is add a manual collection in this part of RaceStudio 3. Once you create a collection, selecting it in the left list will have RaceStudio 3 show in the custom sensors list all the custom sensors you put in the collection itself.

List of Custom Sensors

Let’s now go through all the buttons over the list of custom sensor in order to see all the operations that you can do.

  • New/Delete

    to add or remove a custom sensor.

  • Import/Export

    to add a custom sensor copying ir from an external drive, or to export a custom sensor copying it into an external drive.

  • AiM Support

    to send a custom sensor to AiM support service, requesting for explanations.