Re: [opendiag] Re: Help with Jeff's board

fwiw, i also don't think vag-com uses the init (L ?)
line.

--- sepulttheman <dontuknow@...> wrote:
> Hi again,
> I assume (since the second board didn't catch fire)
> the problem with
> the fire must have been some kind of fault on the
> first board, like a
> short, that I didn't get. The capacitor is (I
> believe)installed
> properly. Looking at the board like it is shown
> here:
>
http://www.planetfall.com/~jeff/obdii/prototype_top.jpg
>
> the - side (gold on my cap, not white) is facing up.
> All of the
> other components are installed as shown on that
> diagram. Still can't
> get the board to connect though. Perhaps my problem
> is how I'm
> connecting to the car? As I said before, my car has
> the 2x2
> connector, and I have it connected to the car as
> follows:
> Pin 1 goes to ground
> Pin 4 goes to K
> Pin 8 goes to L
> Pin 9 goes to +12V
>
> Sound right?
>
> --- In opendiag@y..., "Gavan Raine" <GRaine@S...>
> wrote:
> > To have a quick guess, was the cap wired in the
> right way round, if
> you
> > are using elec. Caps and you wire them the wrong
> way round, thay
> have a
> > nasty habit of blowing a "little" smoke.
> >
> > Gav
> >
>
>
>

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Received on Wed May 29 07:34:09 2002