Re: [opendiag] Help with Jeff's board

i may be way off track here but i don't think your 91
vw is OBD-II.
therefore, maybe it won't pass vag-com's test (?)

--- sepulttheman <dontuknow@...> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been waiting to get my 91 Passat running so I
> could try some of
> this stuff out. I built Jeff's board the other day
> after he posted a
> parts list on his site. I'm not the most proficient
> at electronics,
> but the boards (i actually made 2, one for backup
> :)) came out ok,
> and I assembled them copying the images on his site
> of the assembled
> board (leaving off, of course, the jumper wires on
> the bottom). I
> checked them after for shorts + open circuits and it
> all seemed good.
> Anyhow, I brought them up today and hooked the first
> one up and the
> capacitor caught on fire! It actually went up in
> flames! I couldn't
> believe it. Luckily I didn't have the computer side
> hooked up (don't
> know what damage it might have done). So I tried
> the other board and
> it didn't light up. But when I tested it (via
> VAG-COM), it
> said "Adaptor Status 3-not found" or something
> similar. Any ideas as
> to what the cause might be? My car has the 2x2
> connectors, and I
> checked and they seem to be wired the same as the
> diagram on the VAG-
> COM site. At least +12 and ground are the same, so
> I assume K and L
> are the same. Is there anything special I should be
> doing?
>
> Thanks for any ideas you might have.
> Terry
>
>

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Received on Wed May 29 07:32:07 2002