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 Post subject: $5 CODE READER
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:28 pm 
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HI
I'm not much of a sparky but I couldn't believe how easy this was to make.
$5 in parts from Jcar and 10min later one code reader.
scanned the codes in Koeo and koer mode turns out I had a few problems that I was unaware of
all fixed bar one well worth it.
12v led light
2 x clips
1 x spade connector

 

 

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 Post subject: Re: $5 CODE READER
Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:58 pm 
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Yes it's not very hard to make. Good on u for making it urself.

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:42 pm 
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how does it work?

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 9:51 pm 
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gogetta wrote:
how does it work?

when you put the car in diagnostic mode the ecu puts out voltage pulses which will make the led flash..you connect it to the diag port..(cant remember what pins) and you count the flashes between each pause and you end up with a list of times flashed.
eg 1 flash, pause, 1 flash, pause, 1 flash= code 111 ..
eg 7 flashes, pause, 2 flashes, pause, 6 flashes= code 726
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:00 pm 
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the croc clips look too big to get into the plug and the spade terminal connects to nothing...

 

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gogetta wrote:
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What, by all people you didn't knew?

 

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 Post subject: Re: $5 CODE READER
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 10:04 pm 
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gogetta wrote:
the croc clips look too big to get into the plug and the spade terminal connects to nothing...


yea by looking at the one in the pics it dont look like its going to work???
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 Post subject: Re: $5 CODE READER
Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 11:02 pm 
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Hi
The spade connector gos over the top and bottom left hand pins and the black croc clip gos on the 5th top pin from the left and the red one gos on the bottom right pin turn key to the on pos and start counting the flashes.
The croc clips sit on the pins pretty good you need to get the small ones.
I have attached the instructions I used.

 

 

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Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2010 1:21 am 
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got something like this for EB series 1?
cheers
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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 8:39 pm 
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Sorry not to sure on the EB's But the the problems that I had where TPI out of cal IAT not working and in koer mode I had a bad connection on the water temp sensor which was causing a fault code.
The car was running rich it seems to of settled down now.I am still having trouble with the AU IAT sensor does any one now how to test it I Have the specs for the EL one but I can't get a reading from the AU IAT.
I have attached the docs that I used to test these Sensors.
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 10:35 pm 
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sorry i'm a bit of a dunce but can someone describe exactly how to make this and how to use it...?
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Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 11:30 pm 
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hey would one of those sparkies screwdriver-type testing lights work????
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Posted: Wed Dec 01, 2010 7:29 pm 
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984.OEL wrote:
hey would one of those sparkies screwdriver-type testing lights work????



yes of course it will :D
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:12 pm 
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Couldn't be any easier and cheaper. It really works.

Thanks for the tip.
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 2:49 pm 
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Kniver.
Its a test light.....
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