injector wiring disco 2 4.0 v8

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poloracer877

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• Mar 27, 2013

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Hi can anyone help me please, looking at the injector wiring on race the eight fuel injectors get 12v feed from fuse 1, under bonnet fuse box and the earths are pulsed by the engine ecu, can anyone tell me if you put a multimeter across the two injector wires whilst ticking over, what voltage should pulse,

 

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• Mar 27, 2013

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I would have thought most multimeters won't react fast enough to properly read it, I was under the impression it was 12v!

 

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• Mar 27, 2013

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It's going to be almost a square wave if you look at it on a 'scope, it's on for injection and off the rest of the time, so you should get a decent trace.

If you use a meter on DC, it probably wouldn't be fast enough for the rise and fall of the signal as Mr Noisy has said above, and if you use a meter on AC, you'll get an average value unless the meter is a True RMS type.

Peter

 

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Nice info

 

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• Mar 28, 2013

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Unless you DVM can do a peak hold reading??
Cos you are looking for pulses in the range of milliseconds.........

 

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• Mar 28, 2013

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Disgoo said:

Unless you DVM can do a peak hold reading??
Cos you are looking for pulses in the range of milliseconds.........

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I don't think that would be a lot of good in the OP's case.

Our Flukes have hold function, but it's a moment in time, not continuous reading.

Peter

 

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• Mar 28, 2013

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Yer need a Picoscope !!
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