Re: No injector pulse during cranking
Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:10 am
I have done some testing yesterday, I bought a timing light, a dumb unit with no advance.
So at first the no pluse problem came back, so I switched MSQ to a 1.01 version, I finally had inj pulses going.
I tried different settings, inverting the coil output, setting dwell in many ways, the dwell gauge was dancing all over the place, but it may be the gauge, and I had constant spark with 25 ms dwell and 25 spark duration, but next cranking event it could start late, be erratic or no spark at all, then come back for 10-15 cycles, I had some with dwell and dur set a 8 even with 3. I moved the jumper to the regular coil drive position and tried this way without much more success, inverted or not.
Manually, when a ground is applied to the ign output, it will not fire the coil, but when the gound is released it throws a bright blue spark, if I scratch my ground connection, it will throw a hell of a bunch of bright blue sparks real fast.
On the logic level, as soon as I power up uS I have a ground even with engine off, so if I disconnect the ign channel i get a spark or if I shut down the unit I get a spark too. I see the need for a scope, but I have none for now.
I have a multimeter with frequency and limited functionality.
I guess I need a clean square wave with a long ground followed by an open circuit.
I will do some more testing with datalogs today (with a cold beer to keep this thing in a relaxed fashion)
Thanks for the help Grippo, much appreciated.
So at first the no pluse problem came back, so I switched MSQ to a 1.01 version, I finally had inj pulses going.
I tried different settings, inverting the coil output, setting dwell in many ways, the dwell gauge was dancing all over the place, but it may be the gauge, and I had constant spark with 25 ms dwell and 25 spark duration, but next cranking event it could start late, be erratic or no spark at all, then come back for 10-15 cycles, I had some with dwell and dur set a 8 even with 3. I moved the jumper to the regular coil drive position and tried this way without much more success, inverted or not.
Manually, when a ground is applied to the ign output, it will not fire the coil, but when the gound is released it throws a bright blue spark, if I scratch my ground connection, it will throw a hell of a bunch of bright blue sparks real fast.
On the logic level, as soon as I power up uS I have a ground even with engine off, so if I disconnect the ign channel i get a spark or if I shut down the unit I get a spark too. I see the need for a scope, but I have none for now.
I have a multimeter with frequency and limited functionality.
I guess I need a clean square wave with a long ground followed by an open circuit.
I will do some more testing with datalogs today (with a cold beer to keep this thing in a relaxed fashion)
Thanks for the help Grippo, much appreciated.