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Dobeck Performance TFI
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I have a similar unit on a different bike. It works well for what it is.
The advantage and the disadvantage are one and the same: it only has a small number of adjustments. This means that it is manageable for the ordinary person to be able to successfully adjust it. But it means that if, say, you have a situation where your bike needs 2% more fuel at precisely 9,250 rpm and 40% throttle position but not at any of the map locations surrounding that point, you can't do it.
If you are the type of person who (if they were to obtain a PowerCommander) would download a map that you think is right from their website and plunk it in your bike and call it good enough, and you don't have the tools (dyno, air/fuel ratio gauge, etc) to fine-tune a Power Commander map, honestly you are better off with the simple Dobeck unit. This covers probably 90% of the people who buy a PowerCommander, maybe more. My observation with PowerCommander default maps (for a different bike) is that they are out to lunch anyway. If you drop a default PowerCommander map into your bike, you are leaving further improvements in fuel consumption and throttle response on the table.
If you are going to spend hours of dyno and testing time to fine-tune your bike for that last 1% in performance (or fuel economy) that you can get by individually mapping every single relevant cell of a Power Commander or Bazzaz map then the Dobeck unit is not going to cut it.
I have a Dobeck unit in one bike and a Power Commander in another. Both work well in their respective applications.
The advantage and the disadvantage are one and the same: it only has a small number of adjustments. This means that it is manageable for the ordinary person to be able to successfully adjust it. But it means that if, say, you have a situation where your bike needs 2% more fuel at precisely 9,250 rpm and 40% throttle position but not at any of the map locations surrounding that point, you can't do it.
If you are the type of person who (if they were to obtain a PowerCommander) would download a map that you think is right from their website and plunk it in your bike and call it good enough, and you don't have the tools (dyno, air/fuel ratio gauge, etc) to fine-tune a Power Commander map, honestly you are better off with the simple Dobeck unit. This covers probably 90% of the people who buy a PowerCommander, maybe more. My observation with PowerCommander default maps (for a different bike) is that they are out to lunch anyway. If you drop a default PowerCommander map into your bike, you are leaving further improvements in fuel consumption and throttle response on the table.
If you are going to spend hours of dyno and testing time to fine-tune your bike for that last 1% in performance (or fuel economy) that you can get by individually mapping every single relevant cell of a Power Commander or Bazzaz map then the Dobeck unit is not going to cut it.
I have a Dobeck unit in one bike and a Power Commander in another. Both work well in their respective applications.
RedDogDarren
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I have had 2. They work well.
