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Re: [T3] Generator wrenches.


On 5 Dec 99, at 10:34, Dave Hall wrote:

> They haven't put any figure on the ECU current (or the fuel pump).  The
> injectors must use a bit, but I can't imagine the electronics would be very
> heavy consumption.

You'll notice that the ECU gets 2 12V suppy lines. I suspect that one 
of these supplies the injectors and one supplies the electronics. I 
had a car once where everything seemed to work except that the 
injectors wouldn't fire. I eventually found that 1 of those wires was 
broken.

> I have heard of occasions when using other heavy current consumers such as
> a rear de-fogger can upset the injection system, but I don't know if this
> was due to a fault.

Low voltage, or a noisy supply line, will both cause problems. Either 
could be caused by a big current consumer together with a bad 
connection somewhere. This is why the OEM FI is wired with a special 
wire directly to the battery + post. This won't help problems on the 
ground side of the battery, but at least those should be easy to spot 
and fix.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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