Coil Packs Fried? JP-8???????
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Coil Packs Fried? JP-8???????
Been having issue with my car not starting when hot. (2004 MSM) with EMU. Wont start at all now. I'm starting to think I fried the coils. I had JP-8 set on 1-2 which is 5 volt. From looking around some more, looks like there is question on which it should be. How do you know if your coils are gone? I unhooked the EMU and still no luck. Thoughts.
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if your coils saw a constant 5v they are most liekly dead. easy test is pulling one plug, laying it next to a ground (like the engine hoist point) and trying to crank. if you don't got spark, you most likely burnt out the coils.
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I had heard about coil pack getting fried with Emanage, but thought I had done the appropriate research to determine if my MSM was 5 or 12 volt. After the fact, I guess my research efforts were flawed.
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Brainey, they weren't seeing a constant +5. The jumper in question (JP8) determines whether the active high voltage (momentary) is +5 or +12.
There was a lot of debate on this about a year ago. Emilio and others said that, despite the instructions, you needed to set the ignition trigger voltage to +12 or you'd fry your coils. I went out and put a scope on my ignition trigger lines however, and determined that the stock ECU output a +5 signal to trigger the igniter.
Further research revealed that all the nay-sayers had 1.8 cars. So a few people scoped the ignition trigger on their 1.8s, and lo and behold, those cars all used a +12 trigger.
So the general rule for EMU seems to be +5 for a 1.6 and +12 for a 1.8. Nobody had fried any coils in this configuration so far as I know.
This puzzles the **** out of me because as far as I know, all the MS users are using the standard +5 pullup, and I haven't heard of any 1.8 users killing their coils yet...
There was a lot of debate on this about a year ago. Emilio and others said that, despite the instructions, you needed to set the ignition trigger voltage to +12 or you'd fry your coils. I went out and put a scope on my ignition trigger lines however, and determined that the stock ECU output a +5 signal to trigger the igniter.
Further research revealed that all the nay-sayers had 1.8 cars. So a few people scoped the ignition trigger on their 1.8s, and lo and behold, those cars all used a +12 trigger.
So the general rule for EMU seems to be +5 for a 1.6 and +12 for a 1.8. Nobody had fried any coils in this configuration so far as I know.
This puzzles the **** out of me because as far as I know, all the MS users are using the standard +5 pullup, and I haven't heard of any 1.8 users killing their coils yet...
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Originally Posted by msydnor
Joe, do you know if the coils going out would account for the not strating when hot?
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