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Subject:Re: Engine died, ecu quick look
From:Alistair Bell
Date:Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:22:38 -0700

Oh david, you know I don’t know what to look for.

I was hoping for a wee flag inside saying, here I am , I’m busted right here.

:-)

I’ll take it apart again and look. But that will be later today 

Ab

> On Mar 30, 2020, at 9:16 AM, David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm hoping you examined the big traces down the side for arcing at the
> solder joints.  Everything on that side is either injector or ignition
> drive, and the ignition side gets up to around 450V for a microsecond or so
> every spark.  Take a look at this and the following seven images.
> https://get.google.com/albumarchive/117189706757545167023/album/AF1QipPXMeK1eC37qYxvBWzp03k69WeS8iLDiqhmy0xc/AF1QipO1-rMOL9O5HrVt4omhgfqEXna8Gd28T1nx_T2a
> 
> I say that the first and fourth have been arcing -- actually all four
> have.  You can see ones with no arcing before and after these.
> 
> Yrs,
> d
> 
>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 12:07 PM David Beierl <dbeierl@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Put the ecu back together and in van yesterday. Maybe it will come our for
>>> photo shoot :-)
>>> That board I shot yesterday is on stand offs ,
>>> 
>> 
>> It comes off the standoffs very easily by pinching them; but it's not
>> worth pulling it out again for our idle curiosity;  I have three open here,
>> but two are 022 D which is made differently, and the third is either Bosch
>> or Triumph-Adler, whichever one you haven't got.
>> 
>> Yrs,
>> d
>> 
>>>