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Joseph Davis

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Intro to diagnostics
« on: October 28, 2011, 01:25:34 PM »
The site is there to sell you something, and looks like an ad-infested shithole designed in 1997, but the tech articles it directs you to via the hyperlinks on the right hand side are really quite good.

http://www.diycardoctor.com/

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Re: Intro to diagnostics
« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2011, 12:17:58 AM »
needed:  1 oscilloscope... could have used it a couple times this week.  good info on electrical diagnosis.
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Re: Intro to diagnostics
« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2011, 02:38:33 AM »
cool stuff
i actually just got a scope like a week ago and immediatly ran outside and started scopeing shit on the car. i did have trouble getting it to trigger on the coil fireing(single coil) and it had a lot of shit added on(maybe interference from the coil fireing and current reversing?). know how i could clean it up?
the MS does give a perfectly square wave to the bosch igniter.
cant wait till i get another probe.

neg side of the coil



and the output from the ms

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Re: Intro to diagnostics
« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2011, 02:42:56 AM »
Yeah, the spike is flyback.  It's a no-no to scope the coil if you don't have a HV probe meant to deal with that sort of thing, you might wipe out the scope.
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Re: Intro to diagnostics
« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2011, 03:10:05 AM »
even if its just the primary side of the coil?, probe is an older tek that says 1kV rating.
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Re: Intro to diagnostics
« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2011, 08:02:45 AM »
Flyback happens on the primary, too, which is why the ECU uses an ignitor to switch the coil. 1kV should be fine, tho... IIRC you get ~600v flyback on the primary?
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