Firebird
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You wont understand until you drive with pedal commander installed
Exactly!!!!!
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You wont understand until you drive with pedal commander installed
So it essentially amplifies the signal from the gas pedal? Couldn't the same effect be achieved by, ya' know, stepping on the gas a little harder?
This is an old question/debate that I'm not getting into.
I have one
I use it
I love it
Dont knock it if you haven't tried it
Pull Ya, I love my PC. I wish I'd have known about it when I had my 2010 Camaro 2SS^^^^ We all have choices! That's why there is so much stuff out there to choose from.
Jay
With Pedal Commander being plug-and-play with no tuning required and working for such a wide range of vehicles, all with electronic throttle control, I can only surmise that it is basically an in-line amplifier increasing the voltage being applied to the throttle position sensor. You step on the gas a little bit and it steps on the gas A LOT. This does make the vehicle respond more promptly, but I'd wager you could produce the same kind of results if you'd just be a bit more aggressive with your application of the skinny pedal... no $300 box required.
With the pedal commander during the same 50ms to floor it, the throttle bodies are opening 100% within the first 25ms because when your foot was 1/2 through the stroke of flooring it - the box already passed it along as 100% wide open throttle.
Here's a scenario that makes it worth the price for this one thing alone: Cruise Control. Without the PC, the engine lugs and can't keep a consistent speed going up moderately-steep hills (I drive between 5500 and 9000 elevation regularly). But with the PC, the truck keeps the set speed *perfectly* because it downshifts long before the truck would have without it. Night and day difference.
Even if it were simply a matter of having to push the pedal half-throttle all day long from every stop light and every time you pass someone, that sucks! Imagine having to use a computer keyboard where the keys were three times further apart. The PC makes the daily driving experience *more efficient* from an ergonomic standpoint and greatly increased my satisfaction with my RAM.
So we're talking tenths and hundredths of a second here?
If I need a downshift to maintain speed on a hill and the transmission isn't automatically giving it to me I just reach up and hit the little " +/- " button on the shift lever. That's why the engineers put it there.
How much "ergonomics" are really involved in changing the inclination of your foot a few degrees? Heaven forbid you had something with a manual transmission and had to work TWO pedals and a shift lever at the same time. That effort sounds simply herculean.
Ultimately if people are buying it and are happy with it then that's just fine. It's your truck, accessorize it as you see fit. I was merely trying to determine what the device does from a scientific point of view and the answer seems pretty clear.
Thanks.
I don't like Brussels sprouts! Their ugly, their round and roll around the plate, their green and I just know I won't like them and NO I've never even tried one. I don't care if most other people like them, I just can't figure them out, I guess I'll have to figure out the growing process.
Jay
Me tooI personally like Brussel sprouts. Their cute, round, green and tasty, and yes I have tried them. I dont need to figure them out or the growing process, just when to pick em and eat em
Roflmao