Cam Fault but engine running ok

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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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Nitroking wrote:The cam just has one tooth with falling edge but on falling edge mode it won't run..
Perhaps on wrong phase? Try adding 360 to tooth#1 angle.

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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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Yeah James.. That was the advise I was looking for! Set Tooth#1 Angle to 440 instead of 80 using Falling edge and it does Full-rpm sync! But now the tooth apears at No14 but steadily..

Can you now please tell me if lost sync during cranking is ok?

Thank you again! Composite log attached.
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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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This log contains cranking lost sync.

I was wondering.. If the real correct tooth is 26 and it reads it once during cranking, does it ignore the rest of the cam signal, so if 14 is wrong it just continues to be wrong until a lost sync occurs? Then still my setup is wrong..

See the comp log with cranking please..

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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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Nitroking wrote:This log contains cranking lost sync.

I was wondering.. If the real correct tooth is 26 and it reads it once during cranking, does it ignore the rest of the cam signal, so if 14 is wrong it just continues to be wrong until a lost sync occurs? Then still my setup is wrong..
If they are on the same phase and you are using the rising or falling options then it won't make any difference.

From that log though you have lots of noise and false pulses on the cam signal to start with. In later datasets it looks good, one phase has a cam pulse, the next does not. The "Dual wheel with missing tooth" decoder is designed to handle that, it looks for a number of engine revolutions cam/no-cam/cam/no-cam before it declares "Full RPM sync"

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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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So do you believe that the starter motor causes that noise during cranking and then there is no noise as it is not working?
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Re: Cam Fault but engine running ok

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jsmcortina wrote:
Nitroking wrote:The cam just has one tooth with falling edge but on falling edge mode it won't run..
Perhaps on wrong phase? Try adding 360 to tooth#1 angle.

James
This fixed my faulty setting too :D
I had poll mode activated but this should be the CORRECT way.
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