Emtron’s Shadow 8 is a wire in ECU with a high level of flexibility. This ECU will support up to 8 Channels of fully sequential Fuel and Ignition. Every unit is housed in a durable billet Aluminium enclosure and includes 16MB permanent memory for on-board logging, DBW control, USB C Communications and Knock control up to 2 channels to name a few.

Power Supply

Operating Voltage: 6.0 to 22.0 Volts DC (ECU shutdowns at 24.0V)
Operating Current: 290mA at 14.0V (excluding sensor and load currents)
Reverse Battery Protection via External Fuse
“Smart” battery transient protection

Operating Temperature

Max operating range: -30 to 110°C (-22 to 230°F)
Recommended operating range: -30 to 85°C (-22 to 185°F)

Physical

Aluminium 6061 grade CNC billet enclosure
Enclosure size 152 mm x 139 mm x 26 mm
Weight: 520g
Connector system: 68-way Super Seal waterproof connectors with gold plated contacts
Pin diameter: 1 mm
Current rating: maximum 15A per pin (wire gauge dependant)
Connector A: 34 pin Key 1 Super Seal
Connector B: 34 pin Key 2 Super Seal

Internal

100MHz processor
500Mb DDR RAM (0.5Gb)
16MB ECU logging memory. Over 1200 channels available, 1Hz to 500Hz logging rate

Emtron Shadow 8

Name: Emtron Shadow 8
SKU: 1908-082

SKU: 1908-082

$1,690.00

Quantity

8x Port Injector Outputs—high ohm

70V clamping

Outputs can be used for ground switching, 6A Continuous, 10A Limit

All outputs are short circuit and over current protected

No Flywheel diodes (external diode(s) required for VVT control)

8x Ignition Outputs

Adjustable TTL Ignition drive current (35mA or 70mA)

Outputs can be used for ground switching, 1A Continuous, 3A Limit

All outputs are short circuit and over current protected

No Flywheel diodes (external diode(s) required for VVT control)

12x Auxiliary Outputs

Variable Valve Timing (VVT) and Variable Valve Timing Electric (VTiE), Drive by Wire (DBW), dual boost control, gearshift solenoids, stepper motor and many more.

All outputs have PWM control, maximum frequency = 10 kHz

Flywheel diodes integrated into all outputs

All outputs are short circuit and over current protected.

Low Side Driver Auxiliary 1-4: 4A continuous, 6A peak modulated, 8A limit

Low Side Driver Auxiliary 5-8: 2.5A continuous, 4A peak modulated, 5A limit

High Side Driver Auxiliary 1-8: High Side 4A continuous, 8A limit

Half Bridge Driver Auxiliary 9-10: 5A continuous and 8A limit. Can be used as Low Side, High Side or together in H-bridge configuration for DC motor control (DBW)

1x Shield Output

Connection for Trigger and Knock shielded cables. Short to battery protection
10x Analog Voltage/Temperature Inputs

Fully configurable including custom calibrations

Switchable 1k ohm pull-up resistors on ANV 7-10 for temperature inputs (available on 4 channels)

Accepts a 0.0 – 5.0V analog input. Resolution is 1.22mV (12-Bit)

10x Digital/Speed Inputs/Switched Inputs

Frequency range from 0.0Hz up the 5.0kHz on 1-4 channels

Magnetic and Hall effect sensor compatible on DI 1-4 with programable trigger edge(s)

Hall effect sensor only on DI 5-8 with programable trigger edge(s)

Independent programable frequency-based arming threshold control, range 0.0 – 12.0V on DI 1-4

Fixed frequency-based arming thresholds on DI 5-8. Rising = 1.2V, Falling = 1.0V.

Wheel speed, output shaft speed and other frequency-based signals

VVT position(s) up to 4 channels available on DI 1- 4.

ON/OFF switched inputs: AC request, Launch enable, cruise switch, table control switching etc with arming threshold control, range 0.0 -20.0V

Accepts a 0.0 – 20.0V analog input. Resolution is 4.88mV (10-Bit)

Switchable 4k7 ohm pull-up resistors on 1-8 channels to 10V

2x Knock Inputs with configurable Frequency and Gain.

2 Independent knock input channels

Digital Knock Integrated Circuit Technology with programmable Centre Frequency, Gain and Integrator Time Constant

Centre frequency configurable from 1kHz - 20kHz

Gain control from 0.1 to 2.0

Cylinder selectable knock input

Knock control available on ALL Ignition modes (Direct, Wasted, Distributor etc)

1x Ignition Switch Input/DI10

6.0 - 20.0V input used for EFI Relay Control. (With input > 6V the Internal Hold-power system turns the ECU ON using the HOT Supply).

2x Crank Index and Sync Engine Decoding Inputs

Magnetic and Hall effect sensor compatible with programable trigger edge(s)

“True” zero crossing detection on magnetic signals for precise engine position decoding.

Programmable independent arming threshold control from 0.1V to 12.0V

Switchable 4k7 ohm pull-up resistor to 5V

OEM patterns supported
1x ECU Supply Input

15.0A Max (pin limited)

6V – 22.0V Range

Supplies ECU power

Supplies power to Auxiliary 1-8 High Side Drivers

1x Auxiliary 9-12 Supply Input

15.0A Max (pin limited)

Power supply for Auxiliary channels 9 -12.

1x 5.0V Sensor Supply

5.0V Vref1 output current 250mA

1x 8.0V Sensor Supply

Output current 400mA

2x ECU Main Grounds

15.0A per pin, total 30A

1x Sensor 0V Reference

Analog Sensor 0V Reference with short to battery protection
1x USB C Communications

2x CAN 2.0B 1Mbps/ 6 Channels per node, total 128 messages.
Emtron’s comprehensive Emtune tuning software is used to connect to the ECU.

Microsoft Windows 7 -10 compatible

Free licence

Memory requirements: 0.5GB RAM

ECU connection using USB C Communications

Tuning and data analysis

PC and ECU data logging

Live pause and data playback

Advanced tuning functions

Diagnostics

Emtron Shadow 8

Outputs

Inputs

Voltage and Ground Supplies

Communications

Software