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Date:         Tue, 31 Mar 2020 17:43:00 -0700
Reply-To:     Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Neil N <musomuso@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Update Re: Engine died,
              March 31 update and maybe ecu smoking gun?
Comments: To: Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca>
In-Reply-To:  <82A93D4C-4733-4394-A9D8-71282C946473@shaw.ca>
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Right on Alistair. Nice to know an ECU can be saved like that!

Kind of late to ask but when soldering, did you use a heat sink on the leg of that transistor?

At the group: is use of a heat sink even needed on a transistor of that size when soldering it?

Neil.

On 3/31/20, Alistair Bell <albell@shaw.ca> wrote:

> It worked!

>> On Mar 31, 2020, at 5:04 PM, vw_van_fan_Mark <madvws@cox.net> wrote: >> >> No, bottom left is pin 25. >> Pin 25 is the ignition coil trigger from it's driver transistor. >> That check mark for the middle pin of the transistor appears to show that >> your bad solder joint is for the pin 25 signal as hoped. >>

-- Neil n

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