Master Sensor Diagnostics with the Voltage Divider Circuit
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If you want to know how to diagnose sensor faults, this one is important! We diagnose sensor circuits every day, and understanding this simple voltage divider circuit will help make this task much easier. After this we can then understand the pull up resistor and pull down resistors that influence what happens when the sensor changes the signal. The voltage divider circuit is featured on nearly every sensor circuit and it's also used on some control module to monitor the power and ground out puts.
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That is the best explained video that I have seen on the way a sensor circuit works and how the engine management system reads it. Thanks
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Wow how awesome is that. Thanks for this info
Thanks, hope it helps!
An excellent explanation
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Woooooow i never thought i would understand how ECU works inside
Cool isn’t it!? Simpler than you thought? Of course, there is a little more to it than this for the rest of the systems, but here is the core fundamental 👍
@@MechanicMindset of course you made it simple although there must be a bit complex stuff going on...
Pls i have a problem if you could help
I had a P1401 on my honda accord 2005 ictdi 2.2
I tried to clean the egr valve which seemed to have been in a stuck closed position
After cleaning the check engine light turned off fin but the engine becomes soo weak i could even go up hill more than 1st gear (extremely slow acceleration)
Is it a bad egr valve stuck open ? That i should replace?
I also made a test for injectors and find the return is higher so the engine can no longer start unless I try really long crank still the engine was so powerful than after egr valve cleaning
So what do you think that made the car a turtle
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So on a 3 pin Hall effect crank sensor 5v reference and ground. On the signal wire are you saying you’d expect to see 2.5volts plugged in with ignition on?
No, it would likely be either 5V or 0V depending on where the crank stops.
If the engine is running, you’ll probably get 2.5V average with a voltmeter (but that also depends on the type of sensor)
If you take this one step further. When the ground connection is lost, the voltage at the point of measurement is the full 5 volts since there is infinite resistance. Conversely if there is a short to ground then the resistance is close to zero and the voltage at the measurement point is zero. Those two measurements are how the ECU sets codes for a sensor circuit being open or shorted. Either max voltage or no voltage. If there is no power to a sensor circuit then the ECU could misinterpret the zero volts as a short to ground.
That’s right 👍 This is where the course goes next covering pull up and pull down resistors. We also put various resistive faults in the circuit and check the effect 😁
So on scanner danner he says if you unplug one of the 5volt reverence sensors that you can find one that’s bring down the system. Ok but if all the sensors are on the system connected how can they all be 5 volts. Confused 🫤
That might help if the 5V supply is shorted. Usually there are 2 or 3 separate 5V circuits. We did a lesson where we analysed an ECU schematic. Quite interesting!
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