Opinions on AEM gauges

[SNOW JW]

I have had mixed results with all of them.

Water & Snow--Both the Innovate and the AEM are not waterproof in any way shape or form. With that said I have had some customers go for two seasons on the AEM without issue and others for 1 ride and had them go down. Most times just drying them out in the garage and they will fire back up but sometimes your up sh$t creek. Innovate seems to be the worst in this department.

I wished a guy could go back and pull the old Snowest forum pages up as there was tons of guys that had a few years on there boosted Yamaha sleds and allot of them reported problems with even the AEM due to water even when trying to seal them up.

But no gauge is perfect prologger and FJO makes a good gauge but are very spendy. Most turbo builders go with AEM because they are very cheap to buy. I tend to stick with Koso myself but they too had some simple program issues on the AC sleds and would shut off when they first came out after the update I have not had any problems but they are fully waterproof and very solid and simple units.

So pick your poison all wideband gauges will have problems at some point in time the sensor is what most times fails but what you don't want is the gauge to fail as there is no quick fix for that.

As far as the BD systems they don't use a AEM true boost gauge as there system is built in house and is a much more complex system and works very differently but Nub is on the right track there is a few similarities in the look of the gauge.

 

[Kraven]

I have had mixed results with all of them.

Water & Snow--Both the Innovate and the AEM are not waterproof in any way shape or form. With that said I have had some customers go for two seasons on the AEM without issue and others for 1 ride and had them go down. Most times just drying them out in the garage and they will fire back up but sometimes your up sh$t creek. Innovate seems to be the worst in this department.

I wished a guy could go back and pull the old Snowest forum pages up as there was tons of guys that had a few years on there boosted Yamaha sleds and allot of them reported problems with even the AEM due to water even when trying to seal them up.

But no gauge is perfect prologger and FJO makes a good gauge but are very spendy. Most turbo builders go with AEM because they are very cheap to buy. I tend to stick with Koso myself but they too had some simple program issues on the AC sleds and would shut off when they first came out after the update I have not had any problems but they are fully waterproof and very solid and simple units.

So pick your poison all wideband gauges will have problems at some point in time the sensor is what most times fails but what you don't want is the gauge to fail as there is no quick fix for that.

As far as the BD systems they don't use a AEM true boost gauge as there system is built in house and is a much more complex system and works very differently but Nub is on the right track there is a few similarities in the look of the gauge.

Thanx for the feedback.

How about warranty/replacement INNOVATE vs. AEM vs KOSO????

 

[BigAir]

I bought a Koso for my M8 and hated it at first. It would have to reinitialize all the time, sometimes wouldn't turn on at all, and then started throwing error codes 95% of the time. All within the first three rides. Contacted Koso and they told me to send it in. They updated it and send it back with a brand new sensor. Has worked perfectly ever since. Love it now. Bought it from Snow JW, great price and great service.