318/8 Speed Swap

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I used a teensy controller and arduino. and some mosfets. I used oshpark to print the board. I'm no hardware engineer but it works. basically I hard wired the 5 clutch solenoids, the park solenoids, the lockup solenoid, and the pressure solenoid each to a mosfet. I used the pwm feature from the teensy to vary the current to each solenoid. crude but it allows me to put full pressure to the clutch packs which i think is partly why i get away with putting so much power through it.
I'm a software guy so i thought it would be fun but at this stage i just manually shift it with an up shift and down shift switch. I'm playing with full auto but have no desire to compete with commercial stuff.
one of the awesome features of this tranny is that any shift is simply release one clutch, engage another one. I actually engage the shift clutch before i release the other clutch, it makes for a FIRM shift :) I lock up all of the clutches for a transbrake then release the 3 that give me the gear i want.
also, and it's pretty obvious in that video above, I use the lock up converter alot. the dyno pull was in 6th gear with locked converter.

I would love to talk to you about the transmission controller. I am in the work to make my own and it is almost done. I will run without the converter and use the big B clutch as a release clutch. I got theoretical 50ms gearshifts, clutch to clutch. It will go in a drift car so no need for comfort :D

But I got some questions I would like to ask you:

1: Which voltage are you running at the solenoids? 5V or 12V? I thought they where 12V but just read in a forum that they are 5V. Made me thinking :rolleyes:

2: Have you connected any of the built in sensors? I got the thermistor to work, but struggle with both of the 2 wire hall sensors for input and output shaft speed and the park position sensor. Any details of how to wire them up to the Arduino?