60-2 sync losses over ≈2k rpm

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Re: 60-2 sync losses over ≈2k rpm

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Aside from during interrogation, serial being connected has precisely NO affect on the firmware's behaviour. Therefore you must be introducing some sort of ground or power loop. Are you certain it's sync losses and not something more serious like resets?

To me it sounds like your VR wires are not raw VR wires, and that the minus side is tied into ground in your loom. This may have been necessary with the factory computer due to the circuit they used, however it breaks our circuit so please validate that it's not the case by doing three measurements:

1) minus to plus, ie, sensor resistance
2) minus to ground
3) plus to ground

I'd be very unhappy about having 0 ohms between the engine bay and the max IC. I won't check the datasheet right now, but the max clamp current is available, and you can figure out what resistor is required to produce that max current (or a little less) with 14.4V applied (yielding a difference of 9v DC or so). Going under this is a bad idea.

Progress is good, though. Hopefully you get to the bottom of it with a sensible topology attached at some point.

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Re: 60-2 sync losses over ≈2k rpm

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Please see this post for info on part of the reason why you're having these issues: viewtopic.php?f=56&t=2395&p=42650#p42650
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