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![]() I’ve got a Catapillar ECU here from an 18 wheeler. Complaint: Effer doesn’t start! Nice!
![]() Well here we go: open up the ECU and you get greeted with 70 pins of Catapillar madness! ![]() ![]() Underneath that main board is another board with all the Power goodies. You thing the 70 pins are hard? This bottom board is a real pain to figure out what pins to unsolder in order to get it out. ![]() ![]() ![]() So what’s the problem again? No start. The victims this time are 2 Fairchild N548AB in a TO247 SHT package. Dead short. Now to my problem: With what do I replace these? I can’t find anything much useful about them besides that they are discontinued. Here is some ECU porn. ![]() |
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![]() HMMMM.......
is that a "suicide battery" i see!!! |
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![]() I was surprised to see that in there too.
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![]() can you find a datasheet ? i sure couldn't .
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![]() No Sir! I tried my darnedest to find a spec sheet on that N548AB and found diddly squat! There are not even any markings on these 3 legged caps. But I did figure out that this ECU came out of a 2007 Catapillar MXS engine.
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![]() Great job desoldering all that, that's a lot of work
![]() I would beep out the ECU connector pins to see what they end up connecting to. Because of the big TO-247 package and heatsinking, wild guess is the fuel rack solenoid, as a high current load. I'll check with someone in the business, but there might be a HV DC-DC converter sometimes to make say 100VDC for driving big solenoid loads and the mosfets might be for that. I'd think they get power from the big caps, not from 24VDC. |
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![]() If it really is a suicide battery, I wonder what got lost...
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![]() Unless it took out the device that supplies power to the mosfets but yes you would think might be the case
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![]() Nope. No fuel, as there isn’t any HV produced. There is no short to the gate on both, so the gate driving circuit is fine.
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![]() imobiliser active / service scam activated?
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![]() Nope. 18 wheeler works fine on a other ECU.
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![]() i meant in the ecu!
![]() some fuckers - i know john deer is one, need fault codes cleared with a service tool or they wont run. |
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![]() Had no active immobalizer or related codes.
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![]() Asked my friend who designs ECU's and this is what he mentioned:
You'll need to ID what the mosfets are driving and if they seem to be N-ch (low-side) or P-ch (high-side). If they are driving the "electronic unit injectors", it's a guess as to their voltage rating. For a diesel engine, it's like a gasoline fuel injector - the amount (pulse-width) of the squirt is your fuel amount, but a diesel faces much more pressure and the timing of the squirt is your ignition timing, so you need speedy operation. So it is common to hit the solenoid very hard with 50-200VDC pulse at 20A and then less drive PWM down to say 12VDC for hold. So it is a peak and hold drive. It can be a single "master output" that gets switched to each cylinder by smaller mosfets, that select which cylinder. There is no overlap between cylinders so one power switch can do all the hard work. The ECU should have a boost-converter for this, what is the HV electrolytic cap rated at? It would give some idea of the mosfet's voltage. Not the 1,300uF 35V part but the other big blue one. The lithium battery is likely for a real-time clock, this is for time-stamping trouble codes and also for time-stamping driver's habits. There can be GPS on the truck available through the SAE J1850 bus which would set the clock, or use a scantool. I guess you can track the driver's foot stomping with geolocation and time/date in some trucks. The thermal adhesive is usuallty two-part, Henkel or Dow and glue for the enclosure is typically Dow 7091. |
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![]() So this is BS, catapillar trucks have a lifetime of 10 or years max because the battery is not a FRU - and one must get a new ECU every 10 years?
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![]() I was surprised to see that too.
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![]() redwire:
Interesting indeed. I already had guessed the voltage should at 100V - 200V (from a different ECU) so that is inline with your buddies thinking. The 2 big, 3 legged blue caps are wired in series to each other. The drain and source pins of the fet are in parallel connected and go to the plug that solders into the main board. Get this: The 2 gates are NOT parallel between the two fets and they do not go to that plug that solders to the main board either. So far I have not been able to figure out where the gates go. I measured gate to gate and nothing at all. Its again a multi layer board and can't see through it at all. Maybe I'll doodle up a picture later on and post that. Matter effect I can't see any gate drive circuit on that power board. So I had ass/u/me/ed at one point that the gate drive maybe on the main board. Well that is not the case. I must sound like I got mad cow disease or had my dogs kibbles for breakfast, lunch and supper?! ![]() ![]() |
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