O2 Sensor current?
Orin Eman
orin at wolfenet.com
Thu Mar 25 06:45:22 GMT 1999
> This is the standard way of telling if the O2 is at temperature yet... many
> systems will bias the sensor to .45 volts through a very high resistance (10
> megaohms I believe). Once the sensor is at temperature, it does provide
> enough current to move the voltage away from the preset level.
I seem to remember the bias resistors in my ecu were 768k.
The O2 sensor's impedance isn't _that_ high or you could never
get sensible results looking at it with a regular 1M impedance scope!
I beleive it's in the 10 to 100k range when hot.
Orin.
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