Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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AnilS
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Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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Hi, Im new to picoscope and vehicle diagnosis, in possession of my 4425 scope a week now and the first vehicle I decided to poke around in gave me some weird ignition waveforms. Vehicle is a 2012 subaru forrester with a misfire. Waveform taken with the COP Probe.
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Ignition spikes can also be seen at the Map and Maf blue trace is MAP
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All four coils displays this type of waveforms. Can all four coils be bad ? or can this be a faulty ground or something??????
thanks for the assistance.

Dejan
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Re: Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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I think that ignition spikes/noise is normal on MAP and MAF sensor.

Noise/hash on ignition waveform is maybe due to current limiter in PCM (when it kicks in) but you should scope primary voltage and current to confirm that...

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liviu2004
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Re: Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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Lean burning, misfire caused by lack of fuel. Sufficient energy left in the coil.
What is the burn time? Where is the time scale?

AnilS
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Re: Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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Trying to upload the waveform but the file is too large. I measured some captured events and most burn times are about 425ms and 321ms.
Thanks for the assistance pointing out the lean misfire, my focus was on the noise during the dwell time. I only had about a half hour with the vehicle, but will make some time this weekend for some poking around.

liviu2004
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Re: Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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Maybe nanoseconds instead of miliseconds? Ideally burn time should be 1-1.2 ms.

Tucan
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Re: Need Help interpreting this ignition waveform

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El ruido que se ve en la sección de dwell puede estar siendo causado por fallas en el circuito de disparo de las bobinas de encendido.
Tu puedes comprobar esto con una sonda de corriente enganchada al alambre negativo de las bobinas. Si ves que el oscilograma de corriente en rampa de la bobina tiene caídas intermitentes, entonces revisa las caídas de voltaje en los circuitos de tierra y potencia de la computadora, si estos están bien entonces, la computadora esta fallando.
Siento mucho no poder escribir en ingles pero solo puedo leerlo.


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The noise seen in the dwell section may be caused by faults in the firing circuit of the ignition coils.
You can check this with a current probe attached to the negative wire of the coils. If you see that the ramp-current oscillation of the coil has intermittent drops, then check the voltage drops in the earth and power circuits of the computer, if these are OK then, the computer is failing.
I'm sorry I can not write in English but I can only read it.

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