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Originally Posted by Halon
Care to share? I put this up as I thought it may be good info. If you have something to add, please share instead of just leaving a completely open ended coment?
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In a nutshell.
Innovative and NGK/NTK are direct competition.
A few wideband manufcatures have a piss-poor heater management circuit on their products (aka sensors die quickly unless you are extremely careful regarding placement and thermal heat sinks).
NTK (NGK) and Bosch, aka the 2 02 sensor manufactures had the EPA come down on them for the alarming amount of "VW" style sensors being produced/destroyed.
NTK got together with ECM* (Engine Control and Monitoring) to create a wideband for the enthusist. It is priced very similar to the other popular widebands on the market, and this move is helping to keep the EPA off the doorsteps of the major 02 sensor manufactures.
The NTK AFX is very similar to the ECM AFM1600, a very good lab grade wideband 02 controller.
There is alot more to this behind the scenes obviously, but my official recommondation is what we sell, NTK AFX wideband controllers (we have dropped the innovative line as of a few months ago).
*ECM manufcatures some of the most accurate and widely used OEM level lab-grade wideband sensors in the world, according to my sources.
