PicoFin wrote on Dec 20
th, 2012 at 9:40pm:
eah, the CAN test box. Not that it would not be a useful device when you need to check the CAN bus, but how often is that?
Normally use the can test box for a scanner extension and also is a quick way to see if pin 16 has good B + voltage without getting under the dash.
Has saved a lot of time in the past as a quick check.
I have been thinking, providing the power is good to pin 16 you could do a relative compression check without opening the bonnet
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PicoFin wrote on Dec 20
th, 2012 at 9:40pm:
We have merely one single company selling Pico on the automotive field, and when I speaked to the salesman he said his experience with the COP probe is that you see if you have ignition or not, but that it is not getting even close to the standard secondary clips if you bother to hook them up. Any comments on this?
I normally use it as a quick sync probe.
It can be used like the secondary leads but you won't have a accurate kV, because normally you use the 100mV scale to pick up the the very little magnetic field that some of COP's because they are so well insulated dose take a little time to get a decent signal by moving the probe around.