ALDL Interfaces

David A. Cooley n5xmt at bellsouth.net
Wed Mar 17 02:14:30 GMT 1999


Actually, Field service mode is normal driving mode with the Check engine
light flashing to indicate rich or lean... light flashes at a 1 PPM period,
1/2 on and 1/2 off is stoich... more on than off is rich and more off than
on is lean.


At 07:25 PM 3/16/99 -0500, you wrote:
>In the early ECMs (C3) the mode was selected by a resistance value placed
>between pin A and pin B: 
>Normal mode     (R>=20K ohm)  
>ALDL mode       (R==10K ohm) 
>Backup mode     (R==3.9 K ohm)  
>Field Service   (R<=500 ohm)  
>
>In ALDL a constant 1,000 rpm idle will be commanded
>Backup mode means just that
>Field Service should never be entered unless you know exactly what you are
>doing.
>
>Does that help ?
>
>
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