Ok, I will admit I may be misunderstanding... but I also feel you all might be misunderstanding? What I have is a 1990 ECU that does not by oem standards use a potentiometer, and I am trying to trick it into using one. So, the ECU that I am using does NOT send any type of voltage to the 1990 throttle body that it was designed for. The t-body it was designed for has 2 microswitches that simply act as a continuity switch for a common ground. The ecu sends out a ground to pin 2 of the 1990 t-body. In fact, that ground from the ecu is irrelevant as I can supply the 1990 t-body with a ground from the engine bay and the 1990 ecu works just the same. That 1990 t-body has a microswitch that is triggered when the butterfly is closed and therefore sends ground to an ECU pin regardless if it comes from the ECU or the common car ground. The switch is released when I press on the gas pedal and now none of the 2 ECU pins in question get a ground. When the t-body is at wide open throttle, another microswitch is triggered, and a ground is sent back to the ecu to a different pin. So, in both cases the ecu is expecting a ground, not a complete circuit. If I was 'completing a circuit' by connecting either of the ecu pins to ground, I should see some mAmps as my DMM was installed inline to a potential circuit. I stick one pin of the DMM into the supplied ground and the other in one of the two pins, then the other, simulating triggered microswitchs. Since I saw no mA in both scenarios, I assume there is no circuit and the ECU just wants ground in order to trigger a logic in a chip somewhere that causes the ecu to switch between 3 fuel maps.@Ryan Schuermann 1 :
I think you are misunderstanding the way the ECU reads a ground...
am I still not understanding? I profusely apologize if I do. I can take pictures of me using the DMM so that I can be advised, but I feel I should ask around here locally and keep this forum to circuits, not "DMM usage for Dummies"
Now, If I need to take some measurements on my 1994 t-body with the 5V TPS, let me know and I can do that once all those parts get in and I construct part of the circuit, else I have no way of feeding the TPS 5V at the moment since my auto's system is completely 12V and the 1990 ECU has no 5V out.
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