Re: 3.9 1988 Hall Effect Switch

From: Marty Galyean (mgalyean@acm.org)
Date: Wed May 30 2001 - 02:11:42 EDT


Good points. I was assuming the hall sensor was really dead which may not be the
case!

Marty

Ray Sulich wrote:

> At 10:30 PM 5/29/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >Get a new sensor. There is no hollywood way around this one. At least
> >nothing that isn't three times as complicated as simply replacing the sensor.
> >The computer really does have to know how fast the engine is running, there is
> >no short cut.
>
> I think that the spacing that there should be between the magnet on the
> spinning part is too close to the Hall Effect Transformer. That is about
> the only way it could fail. Hall Effect Tformers are NOT susceptible to
> voltage or current spikes that is their electrical property. So there must
> be physical contact between the tformer and the magnet.



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