At 08:30 AM 5/24/2012, pickle vanagon wrote: >When the Hall distributor is bad in a situation like this, what's going >on? Is is not sending rpm signal to the ECU at all or does it send >incorrect (too slow?) info? The timing of the pulses is controlled by the slotted steel rotor that periodically exposes the Hall-effect device to a magnetic field as it rotates. The pulses might be of poor quality or missing entirely, but if they do happen they should happen on time. Yours, David |
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