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by Autonerdz
Fri May 05, 2006 3:41 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: location of camshaft positioning sensor on 2000 dodge neon
Replies: 5
Views: 16050

CMP

No, not really. Just nuts and bolts. Did you confirm a failure with your scope?
by Autonerdz
Thu May 04, 2006 4:27 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: location of camshaft positioning sensor on 2000 dodge neon
Replies: 5
Views: 16050

CMP

Should be at the rear of the cylinder head.
by Autonerdz
Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:51 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: Oxygen sensor ground connection
Replies: 14
Views: 39470

Re: Oxygen floating ground

I checked my hand held scope and there was no shift of DC with scope ground connected to battery ground or oxygen sensor ground. That's because it is not a floater. This would mean connecting the scope ground to oxygen sensor ground and scope ground to battery ground. The effect of this would be to...
by Autonerdz
Mon Apr 24, 2006 9:35 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: Oxygen sensor ground connection
Replies: 14
Views: 39470

O2

Changing the ground location will not affect the frequency. However, if your sensor has a floating ground, referencing the scope to vehicle ground will make it appear to float above the ground level, averaging a higher voltage that it really has. It's normal for frequency to increase at RPM over idl...
by Autonerdz
Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:39 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: Oxygen sensor ground connection
Replies: 14
Views: 39470

O2

Nice capture. In most cases, you would reference the scope to vehicle ground. Looks like that worked fine there. However some O2 applications use a floating ground with a significant difference to vehicle ground. In those cases you have to dedicate one channel to the test and place the scope ground ...
by Autonerdz
Wed Mar 29, 2006 3:05 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: Automotive CAN Diagnostics
Replies: 2
Views: 8717

Auto Kits

Hi Tom, I would suggest one of the automotive kits with the 3000 series scopes. The two channel kit with the 3223 or the four channel kit with the 3423. Either of these are quite capable of acquiring any automotive signal in detail, including high speed CAN. Both of them have 20MHz ADCs and 512K sam...
by Autonerdz
Wed Feb 15, 2006 3:19 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: ADC-100 used for automotive diagnostics
Replies: 1
Views: 6856

adc100

You could use it for some automotive work but the 100Khz max sample rate is not fast enough for many signals, plus it has no buffer. It's also not compatible with the automotive software. I would suggest the 3223 or 3423 unit in an automotive kit. These are the most powerful automotive scopes on the...
by Autonerdz
Mon Jan 02, 2006 4:11 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: 3423
Replies: 1
Views: 5958

CAN

Oli, I don't think that would be a problem. Of course it depends on how much time you put on the screen. Running two channels with 200ms on the screen, (20ms/div) your true sample rate will be 1.25 MHz and the samples will be 800 nanoseconds apart. For other time bases you can calculate the sample r...
by Autonerdz
Thu Dec 29, 2005 3:43 pm
Forum:
Topic: Examining Chrysler 3.3 Engines For Broken Flex Plates.
Replies: 12
Views: 60154

Broken Flex Plates

The one shown here made no noise. They usually don't make any noise. The only way to identify the problem without disassembly is with a scope. The scanner PID on CKP/CMP sync is not reliable either. Pico's new line of 3000 series automotive scopes are hundreds of times more powerful than the 212/3 u...
by Autonerdz
Thu Nov 17, 2005 5:01 pm
Forum: Automotive kit hardware
Topic: Can I daisy chain PicoScope 3423 ?
Replies: 1
Views: 7057

Daisy Chain

Kier, While you cannot daisy chain units together with PicoScope, you can accomplish your task another way. Adapters such as the Ferret 953 will allow you to input up to 10 cylinder secondary from a DIS system on one channel. This unit works very well with PicoScope. Then you can deploy a second cha...