When comparing with template saved in “*.esa” file, this file must be created earlier
from working electronics.
To do that, you need to do photo of the circuit and load it to EcuTester's software
and select the measured point on photo.
Next you need to touch the measuring electrode to the point, EcuTester will draw the
characteristics of this point.
In the next step you need to click SAVE to save this characteristics.
EcuTester’s software saves current position from photo within the characteristics of
the measured point.
This needs to be repeated for any amount of points in the circuit.
The more points and circuits we scan, the more precise will be our future circuit
checking.
Good way is to make measurements on integrated circuits, which belongs to active
elements group and in most cases the most important signals goes through these
elements.
In case of testing devices with giant amount of input-output pins, you can take the
connector characteristics without deconstructing specified electronics if it’s for
example car computer that contains connectors with over 20 pins, in the future we
would be able to check if IO circuits are electrical correct.
When doing measurement, software generates sounds that helps you, because you
can focus on doing measurement. If the characteristics is correct, the software plays
‘ok sound’ and automatically loads next comparison point and shows where you
need to touch your measurement electrode.
Thanks to its compact build, EcuTester is device that is easy in transport and allows
diagnosis of each electronics type. You can use it to diagnose military, medical,
aeronautics, RTV and AGD electronics. Possibilities are infinite.
EcuTester - safety:
Tech sheet:
Connection:
In this box you can import files read by any progamator, so you can save photo,
binary code and characteristics of electronics in one file.
In the next box you can set up additional comments about
Device for example series number or factory number
In the box below you can see the chart of currently chosen characteristics.
- Buffer saved characteristics
- A-channel characteristics
- B-channel characteristics
This box allows you to enter tolerance (base equals 5%). When the measurement is
out of the tolerance, the box changes its color to red and plays “error” sound.
You can also select if you want to compare characteristics with buffer or between
channels. Comparison between channels allows you to quickly check which circuit is
correct and which one has failure.
The box below shows the photo of the electronics you’re repairing.
Below the box you can see button named [KEY SPACE SAVE] which is active when
creating template project. Under this button you can also see information about
current record number, pin number. Box named [Opis] is used to describe name and
id of currently measured circuit. When creating template, you don’t need to insert this
info and you can only select measured points.
[KEY SPACE SAVE] color changes automatically from yellow to green when you
should select next measurement point. It protects you from saving same point twice.
[Auto Inkrementacja] option active is when you’re comparing with buffer and is based
on the auto-loading the next point if current is within the selected tolerance. Of
course you can hear ‘correct’ sound, so it increases your testing speed dramatically.
On the [KEY SPACE SAVE] button, you’ve key called [Korekta] which allows you to
get back and fix measurement of previous point during template creation.
The box below allows to select EcuTester parameters settings:
Frequency – you can choose output frequency (important with points that contains
capacity or inductivity), so in most cases it doesn’t need to be changed
Poniższe okno umożliwia ustawienie parametrów EcuTestera:
V output – you can choose the section of output voltage – setting to +-10V allows
you to get the most correct characteristics (this parameter also can be set to default)
Res out – serial resistor selection, which is used to deliver voltage to the measured
circuit. This parameter allows you to fix accuracy of the measurement.
EcuTester’s Settings during measurement:
When doing measurement, EcuTester should have default settings set same as shown
above, cause they’re the best ones:
When the graph is drawn too close to the horizontal axis, it means that circuit has
high resistance and you need to choose [R 47k ohm] in [Res out]
If the graph drawn by EcuTester is too close to vertical axis, you need to choose [R
390 ohm] resistor, because it means that circuit has low resistance.
Suggested settings allows to get more precise measurement quickly and the graph is
more readable.
Using EcuTester you can also test single elements like resistors, capacitors, diodes
or transistors. You can also get characteristics of Zener’s diodes in range of Voltage
to about 20V etc.
Respectfully
Piotr Sygut