Faster response time improves wideband feedback control, and can provide a safer, more powerful and accurate tune. AEM's Wideband Controllers with X-Digital technology can reduce deadtime and improve the performance of your vehicle through more accurate AFR tuning. Deadtime is the delay between when exhaust gas composition changes and when that change is reported by the O2 sensor. While flow of exhaust gases can affect deadtime, it is not the only source. Often, the sensing element’s response to the gas is the largest contributor to deadtime.When tuning an engine using wideband AFR feedback control, deadtime affects the data you are looking at because it is reported in a different operating location than when it occurred. This means whatever changes you make to the base fueling will likely be in the wrong timeframe. This can be particularly dangerous to high cylinder pressure applications, and EFI systems that use feedback control.