Primary ignition testing

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Primary ignition testing

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What sort of induced \ primary peak volts should I be seeing on DIS, Ive scoped a conventional system with coil and dizzy and getting a good 180 volts but on the DIS im only seeing about 80 volts ??
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Re: Primary ignition testing

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this's from an 07 Clio with DIS, a good example of zooming as well & also took 2 channels out leaving the one showing primary........
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Re: Primary ignition testing

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So where you have all the info there you could zoom right in on that to show, burn time, sparkline kV, ect ect ??
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Liteace wrote:So where you have all the info there you could zoom right in on that to show, burn time, sparkline kV, ect ect ??

yes & yes

Full capture without zoom below..........
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Re: Primary ignition testing

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what about zooming in on just this part

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Mondeo Duratec HE secondary HT captured on a short time base so no zoom required ................
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Thats the jobby, thats what I want to see, can you do that with the 07 Clio with DIS you have saved as well or by only veiwing it live and chaging the time\volts
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Liteace wrote:what about zooming in on just this part

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Like this ? ........
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Re: Primary ignition testing

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Yep exactly like that, time to sell my scope and get a pico

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cool, good luck :wink:

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