I would love to find a MyChron 1 or 2. I looked yesterday and did not see any.
If anyone cares to see the presentation slides from the OVKA swap meet, feel free to grab them and ask any questions. There are some good tips/tricks for the M6 in there along with a quick look at what you can do with the data.
OVKA rev3 small.pdf (1.8 MB)
Thanks for these. I’ll add these to the OVKA website when I update things for ‘26 this week.
We use a solo2 DL to do what you’re looking for. We run it in parallel with our other mychron gear and merge the data on the back end. Your sensors look nicer than the bright water based ones that aim supplies. Those ones are designed for cars and do not have chargeable or swappable batteries.
I have also considered getting an open can unit to play with on the 6 but aim has told me that the can feature on the 6 is more or less disabled for now. If you get something like a solo2 dl or mxm you can see how powerful the can functionality can be.
We would like to see a sliceable internal temperature sensor like the tireX external sensor installed on the inside of the tire and then we can totally geek out on the data.
Thank you for the feedback. I may pickup one of the gauges you suggested and take advantage of the Can bus. It’s really the only practical way to integrate large amounts of data. Even with just the set of 4 home built tire temp and pressure sensors. Each has a minimum of 3 outputs, tire surface temp, air temp, and pressure, for 12 total variables. Not practical for analog inputs. Sliceable temp data would be even more data to “geek out on" and not necessarily dificult to build. Hardware switch from a MLX90614 to MLX90641, but further complicates data collection and how to best use that much data. izzie racing makes a sliceable internal temp sensor for cars.
If you are already running a MyChron, the XLog is the correct devise to add CAN capabilities.
Towards internal tire surface temps, I would argue that not many, if any, people have a need for that data. While it’s great, the primary use is for simulation and development. I don’t think there is anyone on this forum who has the ability to get custom made tires or impact the development of the tires they use in a meaningful way. Second, the surface temp is what interacts with the ground. It’s also the most use to the driver IMHO. Finally, I would argue that regardless of the temp, the driver needs to maximize the grip available to them to go as fast as possible. In amateur sports looking at lots of tire temp data, I’ve found the best laps often do not come at the “optimal” temp or pressure.
Thanks for the input. At a quick glance I can see where custom can messages could be configured on either can line of the xlog but it didn’t seem like it would accept say a mycron 5 as an aim device on the 5 pin connection. It would be handy if rpm, water temp, and egt from the mychron could be handed off through this connection. Appreciate any clarification/info your willing to share.
With respect to internal tire temp I would agree, i will likely never make full use of the data but part of the fun was pulling it off. It was interesting to see the differences in lag between the internal carcass temp and air temp as compared to the external tire surface temp. There’s significant lag with air temp and pressure. The internal tire temp lags some but much less and once at temp is basically a steady average of the external tire temp as it varies quite a bit from heavy cornering to cooling down the straights.
No two AiM main devices will work with another directly. You could set up the XLog to read data from the MyChron, but it would be a custom CAN. The super easy way would be to just look at both in RS3 using local time. Either way would be acceptable for testing. It’s really only one extra cable to do the XLog reading the SC feed (RPM, temps, etc).
For tire temps and the vast majority of people, I think the important part is where the rubber meets the road. Those are the temps you get to influence the quickest and the most. IMHO, many peoples thoughts of tire temps and the info around them are a bit misguided by what you hear from F1 and top level racing where the conditions are very, very different than karts or cars that we get to use. The tire tech there is very different and the car setup revolves around a very small window of tire performance.
Hi, I’m in search of some data files to train on. Please dm if you don’t want to share publicly 
Shoot me an email and I’ll share some with you. [email protected]
Me and my son using Mychron 6 on 2 different karts. Bought them at the same time, both on latest firmware. He had this issue one day, I had it last week:
Basically, it wouldn’t register laps. Out of practice session, it got lap time once, and it got double-lap time other time.
Not sure why, but then next day it works just fine..
When you download the data, are there laps and it is good data?
Didn’t check that to be honest. Will check when I get access to it.